Mr. Jim Breslin:

I want to add a point on Connolly Hospital, as I know that the Deputy asked about the number of additional consultants in oral questions last week. There are approximately ten consultants and the Deputy had asked if they were all additional. We checked this. One appointee was an emergency department consultant in Tallaght who will become a paediatric consultant in Connolly Hospital but all the other posts are entirely new. A locum is in place to backfill the consultant from Tallaght. The staff going in are new additional staff.