Mr. Robert Watt:

I thank the Senator. We will come back to him on the beds. We have a table here but it would not be a very efficient way to read something into the record. We will provide the table. There are changes across all the regions with respect to increased capacities. We will send that on to him and he will see the details on that.

My job is to run the Department of Health and to deliver for the Minister and deliver the reforms for the Department and for the system. That is my job. Making the Department work as effectively as possible will enable us to deliver on the reform agenda, on the various policy initiatives and the legislative programme for the Minister. My job is to manage the Department to deliver on the Minister's and the Government's agenda. An aspect of that involves fighting with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform - and they are very reasonable people in that Department - about money. Despite the general sense, officials in that Department want to have a well-funded, efficient health system that meets the needs of citizens. People in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are also humans, despite what some people would suggest. They are part of this community as well and they rely on the public health system in the same way as anybody else. There is always a bit of adversarial cut and thrust around budgets but, ultimately, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Micheal McGrath, and the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, have the same objective in mind, that is, to fund the health system to meet the needs of citizens of Ireland, so that is what we are about. My job is to work with the Minister on that.