Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think they will, actually, but it has to be convincing. For instance, somebody said to me one time that I look like a candidate for diabetes. That might be, but I am not: I do not have it. There is no set piece that says one person will be in this category and another will be in that category or whatever. We need to get the attention of people who could be overdoing it in any particular area with a view to them becoming aware of the consequences and doing something about it in a realistic way, and how the health services can reach out to them in an equally realistic way, other than just talking at them.

The other issue I want to point out is stroke aftercare and to what extent it does not occur. It is not there at the moment. What can we do? We will raise it with the Minister and so forth, but is there part of the system that immediately takes over when people are in hospital or with the GP or whatever and through which they are told they are a high-risk factor or are in a high-risk area and this is what they have to do? Do we have that kind of information?