Mr. Fintan Hourihan:

All we can do is keep knocking on the door. We have not been sitting around. We have been engaging in discussions internally on how to be ready for the meeting whenever it happens. We have produced various documents and have circulated among committee members two that we reproduced recently: the workforce plan document and the plan to replace the medical card scheme. The onus is on the association to be prepared for discussions, advocate continuously and, hopefully, encourage the Department to talk to it. The Department will be required to say the matter is a priority and that it needs to talk to the association. That is the one thing we cannot control.