Mr. Liam Woods:

I will be brief as I am conscious the Deputy has to leave. His suggestion, which I believe he made at the Committee on the Future of Healthcare, to examine other streams of funding becomes relevant here. While, traditionally, the HSE has been funded for capital purposes through a capital allocation in the Vote, it is open to examining other delivery models, if we can move in that direction, which would, in effect, have the impact of moving from capital funding to a revenue stream over the lifetime of an asset. We are open to that. We would have to explore it in detail. We have done that in some----