Mr. Ian Carter:

The benchmark I am referring to is Birthrate Plus, which is the UK tool and is now being used in Ireland. It is a study that has happened over the last four years in the UK which rightly distinguishes that there are two types of maternity services. There are those that are tertiary and complex, where high-risk mothers will go, and there will be a lower level of dependency, which would be the classic district general. Accordingly, there are different benchmarks in terms of dependency levels. The more complex the service, the lower the ratio and vice versa. Those numbers I quoted are from the exercise that is happening at present. We are now re-examining our services to see if those numbers would still be accurate with the complexity of the mother. It is a UK number.