Mr. Phelim Quinn:

Under the concept of person-centred care, breakfast should be offered to an individual - particularly at that time of life - at a time which suits him or her.

I am conscious that we have a time restriction, but I wanted to brief the committee on a couple of forthcoming activities. Tomorrow we will publish a governance review of the University of Limerick hospitals group which relates to our engagement with the hospital group over the course of the past four years and our recent assessment of how the governance structures within that hospital group work. We look forward to engaging with the committee again on any issues it may have arising from that report.

We are continuing our work on the Portlaoise investigation and the expedited review of pre-hospital emergency care. We would also be very happy to engage with the committee when those pieces of work are complete.