Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The metrics Dr. McCrory has shown us create a picture that is - I am not saying it is dystopian - negative. If we are talking about a longitudinal societal scenario, for want of a better expression, the future does not look too bright. Is Dr. McCrory suggesting we have more public health nurses at the very early intervention stage and that their role be expanded? We all know what they do at the early childhood stage, but are we talking about greater public interventions and developing a cohort of public health nurses who would deal specifically with trying to disrupt that pattern? Does that make sense?