Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The advice we have from the HSE and from the clinicians is that the phrase matters. It matters in terms of services. It matters in terms of the services provided and protecting those services. However, if it would be helpful to both the Deputy and the Chair, because I agree with the Deputy that this has become something that people are focusing on and really asking serious and important questions about, I would be more than happy to write formally to the committee - it could be countersigned by the HSE - and lay out formally exactly what is meant by this so that we would have a formal position from the Government to the Oireachtas.