Mr. Brian Fitzgerald:

On the questions on utilisation and the cost of hip and knee surgery, I could come back to the committee with statistics. It would be unfair to do so now because I would have to talk to my colleagues to see if we could provide something generic and anonymous to some degree, if the Chairman does not mind. On the need for efficiencies and the availability of information, all of the private hospitals, with the exception of one, publish their accounts which are placed in the Companies Office. We all have volume statistics that are publicly available.