Mr. Barry O'Brien:

Category A is a public consultant only who does nothing but public practice in a public hospital. Category B is for consultants in that category who can have private practice in a public hospital only. An existing category B consultant on transfer to the new contract had a maximum of 70% public practice and 30% private practice. For a category B consultant who has been appointed since 2008, when the contract came in, the ratio was 80:20. That is my understanding of the consultant contract.