Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

We are working very closely with the planning of the elective hospitals and ensuring alignment with the regions. We are working to ensure that eligibility to access the elective hospitals will not be confined to the regions in which they are located and there will be a much wider equivalent opportunity to access across all the regions. The detail must be worked out. If certain weighting thresholds, as set out in Sláintecare and so forth, were exceeded, there could be an automatic eligibility for people all over the country to access the particular elective that would be appropriate.