Mr. Jim Breslin:

I do not accept that because, as we discussed earlier, there are multiple factors as to where cases broke out. Some facilities we are talking about had a good experience, while some modern facilities had a poorer experience. All of us have to work every year with the overall resource constraints we face and we have faced stop-go in respect of healthcare capital. We had a very good national development plan in 2007 but it was never implemented. In fact, only about half the money in general and much less for community services was available over the subsequent period. In 2016, some €500 million was put in place for the refurbishment and rebuild of these facilities. That programme of work is under way.