Mr. Colm Desmond:

No, he is not. He is absolutely factually correct but I am simply saying that Mr. Mulvany has explained, and we would agree, that there are quite a lot of underlying qualifiers when one is reading international data.

The capacity review provides for considerable approach to enhancing the bed capacity in the health sector and the Minister has funded that. That is clearly a priority, as is Sláintecare, among the reform processes we have under way.

In regard to the Department's headquarters, the OPW appeared before a committee recently and gave the explanation on that process. It is the appropriate agency to do that because it was responsible for delivering that building for the Department.

Deputy Durkan made a very fair point on the increasing number of younger people versus the increasing number of older people. Absolutely, the ageing population brings with it the great benefits of what the health sector has achieved in recent years with longevity but that longevity brings certain costs, as we have explained. With younger people, the shift towards a primary care delivery and care in the community, which is underpinned and reaffirmed by Sláintecare, has to be the basis on which we try to develop a service that is closer to people in the community and prevents another generation of people moving into services which are more costly and not appropriate. I hope those points may assist Deputy Durkan.