Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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We are over time but I want to quickly give a little of my own background. My mother died of a massive heart attack. I was a teenager at the time, so it may have gone over my head but I do not remember the family being told to get tested. This was in the mid-1970s. Things have changed since then. We discovered years later that I am a carrier for haemochromatosis. That might have been the cause of my mother's death but, as a family, we do not know. Certainly, testing was not part of the package then. Is it part of it now? If a family member has a heart attack, a mother or father, for example, would it be normal to contact members of the family, particularly if it is hereditary?