Ms Yvonne Goff:

There are about 45 actions in the action plan and one of these is to do capacity and demand analysis. We have completed the capacity and demand analysis and identified all the specialties that need one-off backlog clearance and all of the ones that need recurrent gap investment. We have completed that and we have submitted the 124 million to look at the specialties that make up approximately 90% of the waiting lists that have a recurrent gap and need multi-annual investment. Therefore we have two approaches, one is to clear the backlog with a one-off payment, and also seeking recurrent, to have sustainable solutions to not only achieve Sláintecare targets but to maintain them as well.