Mr. Liam Woods:

In terms of use of telemedicine, first, we had more than 80,000 consultations using telemedicine in April. I acknowledge that is a significant mechanism to provide services to people who would not otherwise have received such service.

I also acknowledge that it would be broadly acknowledged that a first consultation typically would not take place using telemedicine, in other words electronically, but it would be quite routine in other jurisdictions that further consultations can and do. There are excellent systems for that. The HSE has those systems and they are in use.

The Deputy made a point about 1 million patients affected------