Mr. Éamonn Donnelly:

I wish to come back to a point on the CHOs that intrigued me. Perhaps it is a little bit of food for thought. Notwithstanding the fact that we need a regulated sector, that it should not be a profit-making sector and all of the points on which I share the views of others, I am not so sure that having a different approach from CHO to CHO is altogether a bad thing. The reason I say that is there are different demographics and societal factors in each CHO. If we are moving towards the Sláintecare vision, we are eventually supposed to end up with integrated care areas that have a devolution and an autonomy. We must prepare ourselves for that day. I am not so sure that a different approach across the CHOs is necessarily problematic. What is problematic is differences in standards and standards of employment.