Mr. Derek Tierney:

It will early in the new year - February or March. To respond to a remark made by the Deputy, the decision by the Government in December was to develop the elective programme in two phases. The first phase would be elective daycase procedures and then phase two involves bringing some inpatient procedures in scope. The plan for the moment is to progress Cork, Galway and Dublin in phase one, daycase only, and then look over time to see if there are opportunities to bring in or translate some inpatient procedures. We know models of care and interventions evolve and we must keep pace with that as well to see where it lands.