Dr. Niall Colwell:

There are 13 public catheterisation laboratories in Northern Ireland for a population of 1.869 million. That is 144,000 persons per catheterisation laboratory, and that figure does not exclude age. The figure is exactly the same in Dublin where there is nine catheterisation laboratories for a population of 1.3 million. We are being asked to continue to work with one catheterisation laboratory for over 0.5 million. That makes the case.