Mr. Mark O'Donnell:

I will come back on that point and give an example we had recently. The Deputy mentioned the shopping centre environment. We held a series of health checks across four locations for heart valve disease last September as part of world heart month. We had them in counties Galway, Limerick, Dublin and Castlebar in Mayo. Approximately 1,200 or 1,300 people were seen across the four days. We had stethoscope checks to check for heart valve disease, blood pressure checks and pulse checks. Of the 1,300 people we saw over those four days, 10% were actually referred back to their GPs or referred on for further treatment. It just shows the incidence of disease in the community and the impact that sort of opportunistic screening can have. We can go out and meet and be there for people where they are rather than expecting them to go and make and appointment to get checked.