Ms Joan Kelly:

I thank committee members for their comments on the medical card issue. We will keep a close eye on that. The issue of "do not resuscitate" and resuscitation in general is an issue for us in the Irish Cancer Society and for our nurses. We provide end-of-life care and, of the 2,600 patients we have looked after in the past year, pretty much all of them died at home and without resuscitation, I am glad to say. Clarification on that issue would be enormously helpful for us. It can be a grey issue, although it generally is not and any clarifications on that would be most welcome.