Mr. Neil Guckian:

The only comment I will make about education is that the issues relate to registration. Before recent changes, registration would have been much more automatic in Northern Ireland and in the South. Now we are finding that people must have much more dual registration. That has been embraced. We have gone through a process in my organisation to make sure that can happen so that no patient or client is left without service as a result of a process. It has been tricky enough, but we are getting through that and we are now in a better place.

In response to the question on instability and how if affects us, since 1992 CAWT has had many different hurdles in terms of instability, and we have overcome them. However, I would highlight that CAWT has focused in on the operational side of health and social care so, by and large, it functions, irrespective of the instability going on around it.

Regarding minimum unit pricing policy, CAWT would not have a role in that. As chief executive of the Western Health and Social Care Trust, I have my own view but it would not be a function of CAWT to comment or to have an input into such a policy.