Mr. Dean Sullivan:

I will ask Ms Fitzgerald to deal with the central sterile services department at the Mater Hospital and Ms O'Connor to comment on the issue relating to the CMH.

On consultant recruitment, we are not seeking to admit anyone who is not on the register to any permanent consultant post on a permanent basis. That is not to say that people who are not on the register are not being put into those posts on a temporary basis. That comes back to the issue I mentioned in the context of facing a cliff edge. In some cases, one could wander into the challenges of being able to maintain a particular service if certain post could not be filled. There could be difficulties in maintaining out-of-hours cover if a particular post could not be maintained or filled. Sometimes we have no choice. It is not what we would wish to do, but it is what we are doing. I refer to the governance arrangements I mentioned and the efforts of Professor Murray, along with Ms Mannion, being taken forward to minimise the length of time it takes to recruit consultants. There are some hard to fill posts out there.