Mr. Paul Reid:

I will address the first part of what the Deputy said about the pressures in the ED, the utilisation of space and so forth. First, and I say this publicly at every opportunity, I fully support management at hospital group level and at local level. We have a good team at both clinical and management levels in UHL and they do a relentlessly challenging job, as do their teams.

Separately, with regard to UHL and the emergency pressures, we have a team in place and it is finalising a report on the overall capacity and utilising the other facilities in St. John's and Ennis to their best capacity. The team will come back with a report and we will be happy to share that with the members.

Regarding the previous discussion we had about the three elective care centres, I merely restated what is the Government's policy. It is three centres and that is exactly what the Department is bringing through in terms of a business case, so I was not trying-----