Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Dr. Figueras for his presentation. I was wondering if he wanted a job. In terms of the 10% cohort of patients that insurance companies are able to circumvent, had they defined diseases? Can we plan for dealing with the 10% that are missed by the insurance model?

Other presenters spoke about a menu of services and not having an endless treatment menu. In terms of the more than 49% of ineffective treatments, would Dr. Figueras recommend that we edit down our menu of services? If we opt for the universal health care model, should we slim it down first to ensure we have services that are effective and evidence based?

Dr. Figueras said we had a relatively low figure for bed numbers. Does he have any data or a chart on that? There seems to be a chart for everything. Do we have a chart to show how we compare to other countries?

In terms of the doctor-nurse mix quadrant graph 4, is there any data to show the links of those mixes with outcomes?

When we consider primary care workforce development, Ireland is considered strong when it comes to how we are developing our workforce. With regard to other countries that have a more developed primary care workforce, how did they get to that good place? Do we have data on that? With our strong measure for workforce development, is that where other groups came from? Does that make sense?