John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the question of consultants, is it possible to get a list of four or five hospitals, without naming them? We have an average number of days of 62, 44 and 30. Can we receive a list of a number of hospitals indicating how many days they might be out, without naming the hospitals, in order that we can get beyond the average figure and look at the detail? It seems that it is a very ambitious target to reduce the number of days from 62 to 30 in 2013. I would like to see, perhaps during the course of this meeting, somebody giving us that information, the names of hospitals the HSE is dealing with, from the worst case down.

I call Deputy Connaughton who will be followed by Deputies O'Donnell, Dowds, Harris, Donohoe and Fleming.