Mr. John Horan:

The Chairman mentions the increasing incidence of people going through emergency departments and affecting elective work and the increasing demand that is coming on the services. I was quite frightened to hear Mr. Coffey say that the incidence of cancer is likely to increase by 50% between 2015 and 2025. What are the implications of that for the health service? It is a huge task. I cannot sit here and say that I have all of the answers. I like a lot of what I scanned in the report of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare. Many of the ways forward are there, including points about taking the pressure off emergency departments, some of the points about primary care, and many of the points about dealing with matters in the community rather than in hospital settings. There are many good points there. I do not think I have all the answers, but many of them are in that committee's report.