It is the action plan.

I am very sorry that I will not be able to reach all Deputies.

I will raise the issue of the provision of universal healthcare and the commitment in the programme for Government. The diabetic clinic in Portlaoise has 7,000 people with diabetes registered from the catchment area of Laois, south Kildare, Offaly and north Tipperary. The insulin pump service is available for children and adolescents only and not adults. When people reach the age of 18, they have to go to Dublin and go private at more than €500 a pop. That is the only option.

There is no dietician for the adult insulin pump services, which means there are no such services. The clinic is doing great work and hospital management wants to develop it, but it cannot provide a full service. Hospital management has made the case three times for funding up to January this year and continues to make the case. On 2 December, the Minister informed me that the appointment of a senior dietician to support the continued development of the services has been identified and is currently being considered. This is after years of delay. The heads of the hospital group are delaying this. This is what is happening because I have been digging into it to find out what the real problem is. The Minister needs to catch this because in the long term, this costs money-----

The Deputy is way over time.

-----and people get sicker and sicker, if they do not get insulin pump services when they need them and they cannot afford them. If we are to move to a public health system and a national health system in this country as per Sláintecare, this service needs to be provided in the midlands. I appeal to the Taoiseach, and note one of the Ministers responsible for health is in the Chamber, to take up this matter with the HSE. The heads of the hospital group are delaying this.

The Deputy has one minute for this, not two.

They are moving at a glacial pace and it needs to be moved on. I appeal to the Minister and the Taoiseach to move it on.

Does the Ceann Comhairle want me to answer?

Of course. Why not?

I will talk to the Minister regarding the specifics. I do not have the specifics of this case. I do not know why anybody would want to delay matters, if the funding and resources are there, but I will follow it up.