Dr. Paul McKeown:

I was going to answer the Deputy's question. The first set of codes I recall were the ICD-7, followed by ICD-8, ICD-9 and ICD-10. This will sound like bean counting but they provide categories or boxes into which patients can be assigned. From those, diagnostic related codes can be developed. That is administrative. For example, lung cancer in Ireland can be categorised by how severe it is, what cell type it is and how advanced it is. This allows for greater description of the complexity of a case and particularly whenever it comes to assigning funds and resources to management of patients in a hospital and prioritisation of diseases this allows us to compare two completely separate diseases such as an infection in a bone compared to skin cancer. That allows the potential to compare the diseases and their costs. It is an administrative thing and it is quite-----