Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We will park the issue of whether it is a backlog or bottleneck. When we meet with Dr. Kelly next year, we hope to see the board moving well past the 90% figure if it is operating at an optimum level. If the board has its full complement of staff and is meeting regularly, we should be seeing a significant improvement upon 81%; the percentage should be around the mid-90s.