Mr. John Hennessy:

There are one or two items we may have missed earlier. The volume of correspondence is an issue about which colleagues may be able to speak as there are electronic solutions coming on-stream that should dramatically reduce the level of physical or paper correspondence that ties up so much time and effort. Deputy Regina Doherty mentioned the decision taken on cancer patients under 18 years of age. The director general exercised his discretion on that issue, probably at the absolute limit of what the legislation permitted under section 45(7) and very much on the basis of a recommendation from the clinical advisory group. That may be an avenue to which we might take some of the groups mentioned by the Chairman.