Mr. Paul Reid:

What we set out very clearly when we were last before the committee was that achieving that is a function of what we can achieve in the market. We have the funding to do it. We set out that we believed 5,500 was a baseline that we will achieve. To give a very real update on it now, on average we have been recruiting slightly more than 600 per month net since the start of the year, which puts us at about 170 over the baseline. We are running on track, above that baseline. We are not running on track to the 10,000. We are going to review the whole process with the Department and the Minister at the end of May. However, there has been an encouraging first few months of our recruitment process. That will include international overseas recruitment of nurses and very significant new recruitment processes for consultants.