Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

As a point of information I will give the committee the actual facts of how much we resourced St. John of God's between 2015 and 2016. The figures in our published accounts are €140 million for 2016 and €133 million for 2015. That is a €7 million increase year-on-year, approximately 5% or 6%. We are not saying that that gave St. John of God's a huge amount of money for discretionary spend but what we are saying is that we have demonstrated that we are willing to support existing services to give them time to make the necessary changes. The investment has to be to improve services for the clients, however, and it is only the clients that we are concerned about.