Mr. John O'Grady:

The Minister is correct in saying the €697 million is broken into €200 million for the access to care fund and €497 million for other Covid responses. The allocation of €497 million was made against the overall Covid response. Administratively, the HSE has allocated that out into individual programmes, but it was left flexible on the basis it was not entirely clear. There were clearly going to be pressures. Those pressures have exceeded the level of funding provided, but where the pressures were to arise was not clear when the budget-----