Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

-----the Government agreed to the geographies of the six regions in 2019. The Government asked that a business case be presented at the next stage to set out the next steps and the way forward. Notwithstanding the pandemic, work progressed within the Department to do that business case. It sets out the rationale, the objectives and the demand analysis and looked at options for the development of regions and regional healthcare areas. That looked at the number of areas as is versus a HSE local model or a HSE separate model. What we arrived at was-----