Professor Jim Lucey:

May I just amplify what Dr. Hillery has said? The standards are available. We could move quickly on that, but the urgency comes from the need to make sure that, for example, these serious medications are monitored in our children's bodies appropriately. I am sure that the HSE, with which I worked for 20 years of my 40 years in practice, will give reassurances about this, and the Deputy and I and the parents of the country may choose to take those reassurances as sincere and well meant, but can we rely on reassurances from the provider? Would we in any other instance allow a provider to give us the reassurance about being its own auditor, its own governor? We would not, and with our children's lives I do not think we can continue with that situation.