Ms Rosarii Mannion:

Deputy Durkan asked if we saw an increase in turnover levels. The turnover rate in 2017 for medical staff was 7.8%, which is keeping with international comparisons. In February 2017, we had 397 additional medical staff on the workforce, including 98 consultants and 288 non-consultant hospital doctors. Notwithstanding that, we have very significant recruitment and retention challenges in a number of the specialties, and that has been picked up in the course of the discussion. The figures are moving in the right direction, however.