Mr. David Noonan:

The 2019 agreement included a general commitment to moving towards providing care to children under 13 and, on the part of the Irish Medical Organisation, a commitment to negotiate. It did not have any detailed proposals or there certainly was not a specific agreement on how anything would be rolled out. It was always the intention that whereas the 2019 agreement included a general commitment to move in that direction, implementing such a provision would require much detailed negotiation on how the service would be structured, the costings and so on. What is in the agreement, as such, is not sufficient to deliver a service.