In October last year I gave approval to the establishment of an initial ten primary care implementation projects, that is, one in each health board area. Funding totalling €8.4 million has been provided for this purpose in 2002 and 2003. I prioritised that in terms of obtaining money to get it started. The projects will involve putting in place in ten locations around the country a primary care team in line with the model described in the strategy. As the ten projects are developed, more than 80,000 people will benefit from having direct access to an improved range of services provided by their primary care team. The objective is to have these teams in operation and delivering an enhanced range of primary care services to their populations later this year.