Mr. Tony O'Brien:

On Senator van Turnhout's comments on mental health, I acknowledge the work that Dr. Brendan Doody is doing as director of child and adolescent mental health services and also to recognise that many of our standards relate to graduated improvement rather than the ideal end state. I was reminded the other day, by the Northern Ireland Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Mr. Poots, that Bevan, founder of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, stated that health services should always be changing, always be improving and never be satisfied with where they are. At this time, that is a reasonably good point of which to remind ourselves.

There is a clarification on discretionary medical cards and I will ask Ms McGuinness to give it.