Mr. Jim Walsh:

We have 24 task forces at the moment, with national coverage across those. It is quite uneven. While there is national coverage, some of the regions have a very large geographic remit, while some local groups are focused on very small communities. With the new health regions the HSE is rolling out, there might be an opportunity to look at whether there is a more rational way to allocate those resources and efforts and to ensure that they are better integrated with the new structures of the health regions, because the health regions will become the planning structures for the delivery of drug services. We need everyone to be part of and co-operating in those new regional drug plans.