Dr. Matthew Sadlier:

I do not know what documents the Minister for Health has on his desk. Maybe he does have one that the Deputy has in mind. If he does, he has not shared with the rest of us.

There are multiple different strategies. In my speciality, psychiatry, we have A Vision for Change. There are models of care in different specialties. There is a variety of documents which state the numbers needed for the population. Some 17 years ago, we had the Hanly report, which stated how many consultants were needed for our population.

The problem is that it is disparate. There does not seem to be one single document or one single plan. While I appreciate the Deputy’s point, when one looks at the statistics from the Central Statistics Office, the population increased by 64,000 between April 2018 and April 2019. Even if we have a document stating how many consultants we need now, if that rate of increase continues, then in five years’ time the population will have increased by 300,000. Then we will have to build another hospital the size of-----