Mr. Paul Reid:

I will invite Mr. Canavan and Ms Crehan-Roche to talk about their experience locally in the current set-up. The Deputy certainly has described the issues we are trying to address, be they in respect of functional specialists or budget allocations, which do not benefit the patients in terms of the delivery of services. All our focus in terms of looking at Sláintecare and all the engagement we have had to date with all the stakeholders are on how this must be about the service. It is not about structures. It has to be an integrated service. One issue we are seeing at local level even now is stronger integration between acute and primary services. We have not worked through in detail what the design of that in the regions will look. I will call on Mr. Canavan and Ms Crehan-Roche to give the Deputy some good examples of where it works and what we want to replicate from a service perspective.