Mr. Paul Reid:

I will answer, after which Mr. Woods or Ms O’Connor might want to comment. The budget is not sufficient to do all that has to be done. In one year, we will not address the really serious legacy issue we have concerning our waiting lists but we will start the process. We had a short-term action plan from September to December when we were coming out of one wave of Covid. We saw a 5% reduction in the waiting lists. The current plan seeks to have what would be the biggest ever reduction, namely, a reduction of 18%. As already stated, we have been challenged in the first four months but the aim behind the plan is to start to make significant progress this year. However, no single year will be sufficient. Much of the additional funding we received in the past couple of years, which was very welcome, has supported us with recruitment, but it has also been targeted at addressing Covid and its impact on us, whether that was through testing, tracing or vaccination, and also the dual pathways we have had to put into our hospitals. It will be a multi-annual plan. It sets out to address the issue in a way that we have not done before, and it sets out to make progress sustainable. Mr. Woods might elaborate.