Mr. Liam Woods:

I will address the first question on capacity. Since 5 May the priority has been, as the Deputy has indicated, to use the capacity to the greatest extent possible. In day-case care, it has worked well with occupancy at 150%. On the inpatient side we are now at 54%. It is our intention to grow that. It has been growing, it has come from approximately 40% to 54%. We are seeing progress but would like to see more of that. One critical factor for effective use is the time it now takes to schedule a surgery and post surgery to ensure appropriate procedures are in place around infection prevention and control, which is having a significant impact on throughput. The time to operate, for example, is leading to places like the Mayo Clinic in the US having 60% occupancy. We are at 54%. Normally private hospitals run at around 75%. Our objective is still to push that occupancy figure as high as we can by using NTPF-referred work and by transferring work from the public to the private system, which I spoke about earlier. We will do everything we can in the coming weeks to optimise that. This will inform partly our dialogue around the new arrangements.