Mr. Liam Woods:

We are expanding pathfinder because the initial pilots have been successful. A similar piece of work has been done in Cork where there is up to 70% non-admission to hospital. There are very successful pilots and we are reviewing and investing where we see they are working. Community intervention teams are also expanding. As part of our unscheduled care planning, which you can think about as protecting the front door of the ED, those sort of programmes are working well and, as part of our proposals for planning further over three years and for next year's estimate, we will go further with some of those. I think they are already rolling out seven more sites within the resources we have this year. We see those as essential to supporting care at or close to home, as Ms Crehan-Roche said.