David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The question then is what is additional. It was announced that additional funding was being made available to enhance capacity. I understand some of it is to increase surgical theatre capacity to get more from the theatres we have. Very ambitious targets have been set, including reducing the number of scoliosis patients waiting for treatment from 94 to zero and the number waiting overall from 224 to 128 and treating an additional 107 children with spina bifida. I believe these are the targets the Minister set out in his plan. The question is, how much of that €19 million is funding that was not previously committed and that arose on the back of the Minister's visit and what have CHI and the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh asked for in light of recent events where children unfortunately had to go to the media and go on national television to plead for the system to provide more resources? I am trying to figure out how much of that €19 million is additional funding.