Mr. John Connaghan:

If I may, I will give the Deputy an example involving an area of interest to me. She mentioned speech and language therapy and other services. I am also interested in the number of children awaiting a basic eye assessment. There are many ways of approaching that issue in light of the fact that we may encounter barriers or constraints in terms of the available workforce who can deal with the assessments. For instance, I am interested in exploring whether the optometry community in Ireland can, with the appropriate supervision, take some of that burden from the hospital and community-based system. We do not wish to give up should we run into obstacles but, rather, think about how else we can supply that service such that we can have a-----