Mr. Damien McCallion:

The annual report sets out some of the governance arrangements. Mr. Mulvany talked about a contract unit. On a broader level, a report by Catherine Day was commissioned by the Department some time back on voluntary bodies and how they work with the health sector. The Deputy might recall it. A consultative forum was set up under that, where we have representatives. Apart from contract management and the formal side, that is all about trying to see how we work better together. We will always use voluntary organisations - Mr. Mulvany mentioned a figure of 2,000 - from the big voluntary hospitals through to the small service provider in a remote area, inner city area or wherever, that is providing a vital service. A lot of work is trying to get us in a room together to look at how we actually work better together at a practical level both in terms of the ethos and principles of how we work, apart from on the ground-----