Mr. Liam Woods:

May I make an observation? Internationally there is a dialogue taking place about funded bundles of care across care locations and population-based funding. Those devices are being used independent of structure to fund the right care pathways for citizens. It is possible to provide a basket.

We have models of care and the committee may have had presentations from some of the clinical programmes already that define the optimal ways to provide care, that is, if our funding environment incentivises such a provision. In the context of the mid-west, for example, if home care packages are available to the hospital or in the community before a person came to a hospital and if that is incentivised in both the service model and financially, it can act structurally independently and can incentivise behaviour.