Mr. Tony O'Brien:

In the service plan, we have outlined where we perceive the particular risks to be. The Deputy has mentioned some of those risks and I will reiterate them. At present, it is clear the Croke Park II agreement has not been achieved and €150 million of savings are associated with that or with a replacement for it. In addition, a further €106 million has been specified as being related to pay and flexibility arrangements under Croke Park I. Clearly, while the health service has proved to be an effective environment in which to extract flexibility issues in recent years under Croke Park I, obviously I have some concern that, in the current environment, we would need to be certain of the industrial relations environment and the Croke Park II environment in order to be absolutely certain of delivery in that regard. However, for the present time, as the Deputy is aware, at a central Government level a process is now in place by central Government, which is designed to address the result of the Croke Park II ballots and until we know the outcome of that, it is difficult to be certain what will be the outturn in respect of those two issues.