Mr. Damien McCallion:

Along with Dr. Jerome Coffey, I would have signed the letter that went to GPs last week. That was an attempt to put clarity into the system. There was clearly some confusion as to what the arrangements were and also with our primary care GP adviser. Our understanding is that we were able to use that. There have been some queries back and we are solving those but the advice we took at the time was that this was an appropriate mechanism to ensure that GPs were reimbursed for seeing all patients because this is a population health screening programme. It does not just apply to medical card holders.