Mr. Robert Watt:

We are inundated with good news. It is hard to get it out in an orderly fashion for the committee. It is just never-ending. Maybe we will issue a good news statement to the Deputy every day. We will think about doing that.

The Government has changed the public spending route, which should speed us up. Against that, there are the consequences of procurement, as the Deputy knows, for which a certain number of weeks are required. Our HSE colleagues are trying to steer that but a certain number of weeks are provided for within the legislation and then we have to start digging and building, which can take a while. The period from conception, when we say we need to build 100 extra beds in Waterford or wherever, to us actually going out to market needs to be shortened. The Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and Donnelly, have agreed that needs to happen.