Mr. Paul Reid:

I will make two brief comments, and Mr. Woods may comment further.

First, I recognise that there is an extremely strong, capable and committed management and clinical team in UHL. It has some real population density challenges that it has to manage, particularly given how the hospital group is constructed. There is one emergency department across the group, so it has real challenges.

Second, we deploy teams on various occasions, particularly to go into emergency departments and to look at process flow and organisation. In discussion with the Minister, we have sent a team of specialists into Limerick and UHL. That team is drawn specifically from our performance management team and comprises some people who are experienced in process flows and emergency department management. They go in very closely and work with the management and clinical teams. Some of those people have been deployed to UHL already. I will ask Mr. Woods to give the Senator a brief summary of what they might look at.