Mr. Ian Carter:

The majority of our patients come through the emergency departments. The majority of our private patients also come through the emergency departments. The criterion for admission is physical acuity sickness. The ability to engender more is not there. If one turns up to Beaumont Hospital with a chest pain, the decision to admit is not made on a private-public basis but on an acuity one. It is not on the ability to generate more income to year-end, as has been suggested. The main service that is compromised on the basis of bed capacity is that relating to elective patients coming in. Those are also both public and private.