Dr. Mick Molloy:

We absolutely would be able to deal with greater numbers. At present, we have these operating theatre sessions in day case units working five days a week. There are proposals to operate them seven days a week, but that will obviously have staffing requirements and flexibility in work requirements. However, as the Deputy has identified with the surgeon he was talking to, there is a willingness on the surgeon's behalf to perform surgeries. When the surgeon worked in the United States, and I worked there myself, people would have had routine operations on Saturdays and Sundays. In fact, in the hospital I worked in, the patient would be admitted to a hotel the night before, would be woken up at 4 a.m. to have a computed axial tomography, CAT, scan and then be in the outpatient clinic for 8 a.m. to have the decision made on surgery for that afternoon. It is a much more condensed episode of care, not multiple episodes as outpatients. I am not sure we have the resources in our system to go to that because it is a fully-funded, private health insurance system in those situations in the United States, but there is certainly a lot more ability and efficiency to be driven in our system with the appropriate-----