Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

Agreed. There is an overall plan, as we know, which has cross-party support and Government has invested. One of the ways to look at the current year's performance, which we accept is nowhere near where we would like it to be, is to ask what it would have been had we not had all of the investment, particularly the investment in the last three years. As I said, we have more additional beds than during any other period over the last 40 years, albeit that is not enough. There has been a complete change in the levels of resourcing for home support, albeit we are caught up in the challenge of getting the staff to do the necessary hours. That is a different problem from what we had previously and we have nearly doubled the size of that budget. I mention the enhanced community care efforts, which are starting to change the shape of the community specialist older persons teams, teams community specialists and chronic disease management. Those are all positives and there is evidence of significant investment, which needs to continue.