Mr. John Hennessy:

No one is arguing with the logic of what Deputy Durkan is saying. Of course we should be availing of cross-European opportunities. I do not presume to speak for our Department of Health colleagues on this, but I am aware that there is work going on in this area. It does involve the areas of information and knowledge sharing. The complexity of that should never be underestimated. It certainly involves leveraging the purchasing power of the 500 million people that the Deputy spoke of in order to get better value and better contracts with drug suppliers. There is no argument with the logic of what the Deputy is saying.