Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

We would have to check. We have a standard provision for trying to bring about the earlier and appropriate signing of our service level agreements. Starting with the larger agencies, this means that if a service level agreement has not been signed by the end of February we start to hold 20% of the cash from that organisation. I know that at least one derogation or extension to that was sought by and approved for St. John of God's but I do not know where they are with this today. I repeat that our aim is to work through the various issues with St. John of God's and to maintain and help improve the services overall. We know that means greater investment over time. We cannot simply respond, however, to every service provider that says that it needs more money. There has to be a process that we go through. I do not know whether a direct comparison between the services and the funding of St. John of God's and Stewarts Hospital, for example, is fair and reasonable. Our disability division, however, has done and is doing a lot of work to try to get much closer to what are the underlying costs and investments necessary to support better quality services.