Mr. Dean Sullivan:

I will kick off. It is a fair comment. The review was done in 2012. The prioritisation exercise was helpful at the point in time. There has not been, as the Comptroller and Auditor General's report stated, any national reprioritisation since then but there have been a number of local reprioritisations - new locations identified, existing locations merged, etc.

As Mr. Reid has said, the fact that we have the 127 and will have the 77 is of huge value. It is much better than starting from nothing, and they are well distributed across the country. We have the platform here to build on into the future. The models we have will be sufficiently flexible to allow a range of different services to be put in place. The most important thing is that we have something that brings together the integrated primary care teams, including the GPs, in one location as a single one-stop shop for patients. We have prioritised the completion next year of an exercise that will review how we are using the existing centres. We will look at Sláintecare in the round and how things have moved in our thinking over the past ten years. We will make sure as we go forward now, building on the 204 that will be in place between now and 2023 or so, that we redirect as appropriate and maximise the value from the 204 we will have by then.