Ms Anne O'Connor:

Cork has been under huge pressure. We have seen that in recent months in the level of attendance and capacity. Services there have been challenged by the level of demand and, equally, its capacity to discharge from the hospital to community services and home. We have people down there, as Mr. Reid said, working with the site, looking at integrated solutions between the hospital and community services, how it uses capacity and how it can introduce models of care that can have an impact. As I said, the level of demand we are seeing on some sites is quite extraordinary and they have been experiencing a huge surge in recent weeks. Notwithstanding that, we will be in Cork on Friday working with the services to ensure we are doing everything we can nationally to support both the community element in terms of hospital avoidance, the discharge element and the use of all available capacity across the health system.