Mr. Paul Reid:

It was much more than €64 million last year, it was €640 million. The Deputy can put another zero on that figure.

On where the pressure has been in the first quarter, the breakdown is between the acute hospitals which have had significant pressures on them, and their service pressures are increased on last year and there are community pressures, with significant demands on home support packages, and step-down services.

On the specific question of what will happen for the rest of the year, as we outlined this morning, we are setting out for all the senior budget holders - managers in the acute hospitals and in the community organisation - a month by month profile for the rest of the year that aims to bring them in on target. That is the process that we are undertaking. We are saying that we cannot sustain the level of overrun which happened last year, I agree with the Deputy. This quarter, or the first four months even, is better than last year, but there is still an overrun and it is not something we can sustain for the rest of the year.