Mr. Joseph Musgrave:

Absolutely. What the Deputy describes varies across the CHOs. In many cases, the mention of "palliative" care does speed up provision but in other cases it does not, which is frustrating. This goes to the heart of the Chairman's question as to whether Sláintecare will bring uniformity. Currently, some CHOs are on a paper based reporting system for home care but others operate an electronic system for home care. CHO1 has a new finance system and CHO7 has an entirely different finance system. We hope Sláintecare will bring some cohesion but we are trying to deal with the system as it is now but it is difficult to get any consistency. Therefore, when designing national guidelines and spreading information one has to constantly add the caveat that the situation may be different in a particular local area.