Mr. John Dunne:

They might. I think we have that with our team of staff. The trick is not for someone to have that focus because we can always send a carer there. The first thing is to find the carer. The reality is that most carers in their early stages of caring do not identify themselves as carers. They see themselves as a diligent son, daughter, husband, mother or father looking after someone. However, when they bring the person for whom they are caring to the public health nurse or the GP, if the GP or the public health nurse can spot that there is a caring relationship and that the carer could perhaps do with a bit of help, that is where we think the real gold will be. The carers will not come. We can put up signs stating, "We are here to help carers." I have been the main carer for my mother for 30-odd years. I was working for Family Carers Ireland for six months before it occurred to me I was a carer. I did not join the organisation out of conviction; I went in as a management consultant.