Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

One would have to look at each individual year to see what the specific issues were. The health service deficit involves a combination of the level of demand, the capacity of the health service to manage the budget it is given, whether it does it well and whether it was the right budget in the first place. It is in those three spaces.

I do not have a specific answer as to why it has been different in the past three or four years. I do have specific answers as to what happened in each of those years.