Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)

I welcome the news on cystic fibrosis and the innovative way the Government is proceeding by providing that beds will be available and payment will be made in 2011. I was contacted by a number of families over the weekend on this issue and I am glad the Minister will proceed on it. It would have been a travesty for her not to proceed with it because it is regrettable that the life expectancy of people with cystic fibrosis in Ireland is much shorter than in other European countries.