Mr. Tim Collins:

I will ask my colleague, Mr. Macey, to address the stroke question. Before doing so, I will try to answer the question on air pollution. We did a pubic opinion-awareness survey recently. Most people in Ireland think that air pollution, or at least the air pollution that is impacting on health, comes from transport emissions. The bulk of the particulates we breathe in that cause heart disease and stroke come from burning solid fuels. We have been strong in saying to Government that it needs to do a number of things in this area. It needs to bring in WHO air quality standards, move forward with a clean air Act and ban the burning of the worst smoky solid fuels, that is, smoky coal, wet wood and peat sod turf. We also need to phase out the burning of fuels. We are an outlier in Europe in our reliance on solid fuel to heat our homes. We need to ensure that people have the resources to retrofit their homes and to deal with the issue of fuel poverty. I will hand over to Mr. Macey.