Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

I am just doing so and totting them up here. The vast majority of the increases are down to clinical staff. We are looking at our medical staff, who are our consultant and non-consultant hospital doctors, with an increase of 124 over the next four years. I can report that, as of this year, we have 18 new non-consultant hospital doctors, NCHDs, and 17 new consultants recruited, which is good. We have phased those over the next four years. There are 250 additional nurses. We are cognisant that we do not remain static. We have the turnover in the children's hospitals of approximately 10%. We have a plan to phase this up, taking the current churn rate into account, as well as looking for new posts. Some of these posts are nurse specialists and advanced nurse practitioners, so it is not just about replacing these staff members with new staff nurses.

An increase of 200 is needed in the number of health and social care professionals. These include physiotherapists, occupational therapists and psychologists, in particular, because services for children need significant support.

Regarding the investment in Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, most of the new staff are in those types of services because that is where the deficits in general paediatrics lie.

As to non-clinical - technical services and such supports - and administrative staff, the vision is one of a digital hospital. A digital hospital does not require a medical records department. Our largest change relates to how the three children's hospitals have approximately 140 people involved in processing paper. We will be converting those roles from administrative-type work into more patient and client-centred roles. That represents a reduction of approximately 140 staff, who will change their roles from currently-----