Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I produced the report so I need to address that. I think what we were trying to do in this part of the report was to give an overview of how the service had developed and that to a certain extent there was stopping and starting for whatever reason. If one looks at the diagram, there was the Eastern Regional Health Authority report in 2004. The next significant development in terms of a strategy was in 2012. Obviously, there were many reasons that there might have been delays including structural reasons. Probably that is not the only one. I would imagine that other priorities, perhaps, got in the way as the HSE was developing national strategies across many fronts.