Mr. Niall Egan:

As the Deputy is aware, we do have guidelines that are sent to GPs and are available for GPs but I take the point he is making in terms of attaching something and in some way making it more clear in terms of the specific application form. We have reviewed our application forms and some of our illness schemes to reduce their length in recent times but we are always looking at our application forms and we can take that back to our colleagues in terms of the Deputy's views on how that might be an issue and how the form structure could be amended or changed to reference which part of the guidelines are of most use and most relevance as milestones or signposts for the GP. That is probably the best way of dealing with that because I do not doubt the point the Deputy is making that some GPs are not clear on exactly what we are looking for and obviously, we have our own medical assessors to review each case as well. I see the merit in that suggestion.