Mr. Paul Reid:

On Mr. Watt's commitment to publish as much as we possibly can, we are getting at the hospital level to a better place. We have what we call a high-performance visual platform, which, in essence, is a system and database that allows us to drill down at a better level - at a hospital level, at a consultant level and at a specialist level - around what is waiting, what is active and what was done last week. There are a smaller number of hospitals for which we have to finalise the data to be able to put that up but we are getting to a much better place, even of the current data we have, to get better information on it. Obviously, we want to publicly share that.

Within the current waiting lists, even as they are produced by the NTPF, there are some people who have received an appointment for the next six weeks. In essence, they are not waiting. They are on a list and they have an appointment. There are some people who are attending a second appointment as part of their consultancy and they are in the service. There are some people who are not available. Even when one gets the big figure of approximately 800,000, when one drills down there are approximately 90,000 who are in those three categories. There is the active waiting list and then one looks after that.

On the Deputies third question around community service waiting lists, that is a real issue for us, first of all, in capturing it because we do not have any level of equivalence on our community side of systems. My understanding - Ms O'Connor could help qualify it - is even in what we have there is a legislative requirement for the NTPF to be able to publish community lists. That is something that is needed in legislation.