Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have indeed, extensively. I have had numerous engagements with the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland and it is very enthusiastic about and supportive of this development. I held a national conference in the National Convention Centre Dublin and brought over clinicians who are doing this in the United States, Australia and so on to speak to the Irish clinicians. The day was deemed to be an unqualified success from the clinicians' point of view because they learned about this new way of doing things and we challenged all the challenges and asked all the questions of the clinicians, the practitioners and the managers of the health service. There were 200 or 300 people there. They questioned all these people and got to the bottom of the matter. There is no need for us to reinvent a wheel that is already moving. I was doing this 20 years ago in education when I was a schoolteacher in Leap in west Cork. We were giving special needs teaching out to islands through technology rather than the special needs teacher having to leave the Leap school, go out to Baltimore and get on a boat or whatever. This is bringing healthcare 20 years on. It is a platform, and I know Deputy Chambers' concern is videoDoc and the prescription-----