Dr. Tony Holohan:

I understand what the Senator is saying. Several of those points have been made to us but we have no knowledge of that other than those declarations and statements. The reality is that the proposed and previous regulations do not make provision for people other than those I have mentioned and who we propose. We are still working on this as an organisation and, as I said, we hope to finalise our thinking on the matter over the coming weeks and bring it to a level of finality. However, Senator Burke's use of the word "referral" is not in accordance with the intended meaning of the word as set out in the legislation. A definition of "refer" and so on is set out in the directive.