Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I endorse the Chairman's comments. He most certainly speaks for me. I have no doubt he is echoing the views of everyone present.

I ask for the Chairman's patience, as we have agreed to raise a couple of additional items in the course of this engagement. I will not be abusive of the time. I will not be able to direct questions to each of our guests, so I thank them all for their oral and written contributions.

I wish to ask about the most distressing of all situations, which Ms Edghill referenced, namely, palliative care for children. The Irish Hospice Foundation highlighted a recommendation. What can the system do to improve? Ms Edghill told us about the advances made in the past year, but that was done at the foundation's cost and through the generosity of the citizenry. The foundation highlighted a reasonable proposition in the second of its two recommendations under the heading of children's palliative care, namely, to facilitate staff releases for training and the progressive roll-out of children's palliative care education and training programmes. Will Ms Edghill expand on that recommendation?