Dr. Colm Henry:

It is important to emphasise what the CEO has just said there. We delivered, in the first phase and in the second phase, a great majority of critical care in conventional critical care settings. The mortality for critical care patients provided for in Ireland was of the order of 21%, which is about half of that in the UK and other countries. The reason mortality was much lower for the same patient selection was that we managed to deliver a greater majority of critical care in conventional critical care setting with trained expertise. When we talk about additional ventilators, it cannot be dealt with in isolation from dealing with the whole system of critical care and how it should be and how it is optimally delivered, that is to say, in conventional units in a critical care bed with trained nurses and trained doctors, and that is the capacity we are focusing on.