Mr. John Hennessy:

I will follow up on what Deputy Catherine Byrne said about her experience on a Sunday morning. By the way, it resembles quite closely where the model of primary care is hoping to get to on a consistent basis around the country. The idea is that there will be a seven-day service that is based on accessible GP out-of-hours cover, ably supported by community intervention teams and nursing therapy staff, and well-connected and linked to mainstream services in hospital and primary care. The model we have been describing is based on building the capacity to do that in a consistent manner and on working with ambulance, hospital and primary care teams to ensure all that is joined up and patients can be referred, cross-referred and transferred to the most appropriate places in which care can be provided. By the way, a large part of this involves establishing the confidence of the public and our own clinicians in the approach that is being taken as opposed to everybody being directed to the emergency department.