The topics we identify are ones which we know to be of central importance to ordinary people. The first, for instance, relates to an unforeseeable development which is causing enormous trouble and expense to hospitals around the country, namely, the winter vomiting virus. The Government has announced that no extra funding will be made available to health boards to compensate them for the unavoidable additional costs they incur as a result of the virus, which effectively means that other services will have to suffer.