Mr. Desmond Kenny:

I will take that back to Deputy Ó Caoláin's question about joined-up government. As Mr. Keegan has illustrated there, the Deputy would have been pointing to this. It looks as though it is a multiple need in the different Departments to join it up, but if one looks at the figures it is the outcome of neglect that is causing the cost. The solution is simpler because it is substantially within Health and the HSE, and the allocation of those kind of resources at an early stage. Through the clinical lead programme, we have already made a start but we are coming in as poor relations on the end of other type of interventions or strategies, and the danger is that we will not get that investment. We have to argue for that investment to be made at an early stage. It is a case of being joined-up in the Department of Health rather than joined-up Departments. The outcome will be there in the longer term but the immediacy of the preventative programme lies in Health.