Mr. Damien McCallion:

The performance process looks at exactly what the Deputy has referred to. I will take the example of mental health. CAMHS has been quite topical. We know some of the CHOs are struggling there. We look at the resources they have in their teams and how they can address that, and we make sure they are dealing with the key targets. For example, in CAMHS one of those targets is that 95% of all urgent cases must be seen within three working days. We had a number of CHOs that were struggling to achieve that target. We worked with them as part of a national improvement to lift that up. That is just one example. Each month in the performance cycle we will look at where CHOs are under target and work to try to address that. However, it varies across the country and between different areas. One of the things factored in will be the resources they have available and issues local to their populations. The challenges in the north inner city will be different from those in rural areas.