Mr. Jim Breslin:

The first thing in something as immediate as this is to try to get the diagnosis and get the issue resolved. The most vital thing, both for the health service and for the individual, is that we try to get to the underlying issue and get it resolved. We are probably not in the first week of it but if we are in a situation where somebody has a chronic or long-standing condition, the health service has a range of services, including counselling and patient support services, to support people in that situation. I do not wish to speak about the individual incident but my guess in something so proximate, if it happened last weekend and the issue is now present, is that the concentration of the effort, both by a GP and by specialists, would be on trying to get a handle on what the underlying issue is.