David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will stop the Minister there. I am sure he will have a lot of time tomorrow to set out in a press conference all of the details of the waiting list plan. I celebrate and welcome every additional cent that is put into the health service, every single staff member who is recruited and any additional funding on the capital side, and that is all money I will support. However, when we look at the scale of the waiting list challenge, I am not convinced we are going to do enough or that the targets being set will be met. I agree and fully accept that setting ambitious targets is what a Minister for Health should do. I want to go back to some of the targets because they are important when we look at the two budgets just gone. Many of the targets we are trying to meet this year were actually targets that were set in 2021. On the staffing side, what was the target number of full-time equivalent positions that were funded for 2021?