Mr. Se?n Flood:

In terms of our own process at the National Treatment Purchase Fund, we collate all the waiting list data from all the hospitals. We use that data then and we target specific procedures. The Deputy will see in the waiting list action plan, which Mr. Gloster referred to and which is published online, that we have funding this year of €150 million. We send a list of patients for particular procedures to a public hospital. The public hospital obviously has clinical oversight of the patient. They will review those patients to see if they are clinically suitable to go out for treatment into a private hospital. What happens then, if that is the case, is that the HSE hospital will contact that patient and tell them that they have an offer by the NTPF for treatment. If they accept that offer, they will then go for an assessment to that private hospital.