Dr. John Farrell:

It goes back the same thing that there would not be the demand on the out-of-hours service because a lot of it now is spillover effect in that people are ringing late in the day to have a sick child seen to. It would reflect what is happening in all GP practices at the moment. Many people are leaving their appointment times free between 4.30 p.m. and 6 p.m., or whatever time out-of-hours takes over, to see those sick people, and there has been a huge number of sick children. If we had the capacity within the system, they could be seen and should properly be seen within daytime hours so they could then access prescriptions from pharmacists instead of all that-----