Mr. Liam Woods:

I will pick up on the questions on elective care asked by Deputy Kelleher. The Tuesday figure referred to and the pattern of admissions of electives and urgent electives does, of course, have an effect on trolleys, and hospitals are constantly balancing demands from emergency departments and demands for elective work. With regard to weekend work, on occasion and during the course of last year we funded specific activity over weekends where it was feasible to do so. We have the capacity in clinical and nursing terms to do so. Primarily this was done through the waiting list initiative. The constraints on this are the availability of people and restrictions on total supply. We can give the Deputy the list of the 300 beds from 2015 to 2016. They all opened, but we can give a list of their current status if it is helpful.

A question was asked about Balbriggan primary care centre. I will ask Mr. McCallion to address primary care centres generally - Balbriggan is a case in point - along with the questions on emergency planning observations.