Dr. Colm Henry:

We have senior decision makers in place all the time. However, what we really focused on for the past two weekends were the enablers for senior decisions to be made. It was those actions and interventions, whether the provision of additional radiology capacity or additional support for community services, that allowed additional people to be discharged at weekends, which normally would not happen. As we said, we have a 24-7 covering hospital system but decisions senior decision makers make cannot necessarily be followed through on a seven-day basis.