Dr. Ronan Glynn:

I will address the point regarding representation. As Deputy MacSharry stated, I was not in my current post when the cross-party action group came to the Department. Since I took up the post, the Deputy submitted questions and these were answered within two weeks. We have tried to engage proactively on this. The idea of bringing representation from across various specialties and from different parts of the country was to ensure that we could answer the committee's questions and that we might get as much information as possible out there, albeit from a particular scientific perspective. We are certainly not rubbishing the experience of patients.