Mr. Jim Breslin:

Broadly, I would, but we are all a bit Irish whereby having got through this, we look back and say "We must have been lucky". We were not lucky with the amount of capacity we have. We knew that we had less than the international norms of ICU. We also knew in other areas that we were short, and yet we got through it. It is worth asking how we have managed. It is the quality of the staff, the performance of people on the front line, and the absolute commitment that people have given to that, including those in the HSE and I might even mention the Department and the Oireachtas in that regard. We did manage to do something right.