Mr. Paul Reid:

I will come back on two points, the last one first in terms of public and private. Like everybody, we have all grown up with the public system and as CEO of the HSE, I am absolutely committed to making the public system better, and uniform and consistent. That is why we come to work every day. We do have to be realistic and just say where we are right now. We have to use the capacity that is there in the private system as well, and contract for it. Last week, almost 2,000 bed days were contracted from the private system. That is just a function of where we are at right now, but it is getting people seen at a time when emergency departments in hospitals are under constraints. Could I make two general points briefly on the first set of questions?