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

That is correct but, given the importance of the lack of services already outlined, should that not be at the top of the list for all people involved in the negotiations regarding the availability of funding and specialist places and so on, and in particular the areas where CHOs 1 to 7 have been funded but no team as yet has been funded in CHOs 5, 8 and 9? Surely those things should have been foremost in the minds of the people seeking the services at the time. It should not come after everybody else has made their requests for expenditure. It should be in earlier. The priority rating comes in again. That was raised by Deputy Shortall as well. It is hugely important because if we cannot back that, we cannot impact sufficiently on the points Ms Rogers has raised, which are all good points.