Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

If possible, I want to ask a specific question first, then I have a range of other queries. My first question for Dr. Lineen-Curtis. Why is it that my children always run a temperature at 3 a.m. and not at a more convenient time? For the sake of people listening in, who are not familiar with the context or do not have that experience, my experience, if my child wakes up running a high temperature at 3 a.m. is that we will jump out of bed and make the run into Caredoc. More often than not, we will leave the Caredoc with a prescription for an antibiotic and strong advice to get a bottle of Calpol on the way home. Other times, and it has happened a couple of times, the doctor takes a look at the young fella and tells us we have to take him to University Hospital Waterford, UHW. It takes me 15 minutes to get to Caredoc, and ten minutes to ferry my son out to the emergency department at UHW. The call will have been put in ahead of time. Can Dr. Lineen-Curtis outline how different that experience would be if I woke up with my child at 3 a.m. running a high temperature on Clare Island?