Mr. Paul Reid:

I have a few comments on the Deputy's specific question on primary care. The Minister touched on the plan for further and current deployment. I relayed earlier some of the recruitment that has happened, and some of this is within primary centres. The 100 therapy posts have just been approved and they will be deployed to communities, specifically in primary care centres to enhance them.

The intention has never been that diagnostics would be in every primary care centre. It will depend largely on proximity to acute hospitals and it is intended for some. Primary care forms an element of our capital plan in terms of employment and the current service plan. Over €15 million is committed to service redesign, to which I referred earlier, to move it further into the community. We touched within that on community health networks, which are about people working at local level, specifically in primary care centres. That will form part of that €15 million investment in the service plan.