Mr. Paul Reid:

I will come back on some of the points and I will ask my colleague, Ms O'Connor, to respond to the temporary system payment, the procedure in nursing homes with regard to outpatient attendance and the expert panel.

The Nursing Homes Ireland engagement has not ceased at all. In fact it has probably increased in the last few weeks with the HSE specifically. We talk with Tadhg Daly, who is actively involved, and with Nursing Homes Ireland. The individual nursing homes have been very involved in scheduling and organising the serial testing all across nursing homes. Tadhg is on calls with our teams and with Ms Niamh O'Beirne who leads the testing process. I am on a call with Tadhg tomorrow and our colleagues on the community side are regularly in contact with Tadhg. I would say that the engagement has not ceased and has in fact probably increased over the last while. I am happy for it to continue. I will now ask Ms O'Connor to comment on some of Deputy Burke's other points.