Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Wait a second, I have not finished yet. It is demand driven but it is possible to anticipate the demand to a large extent, with the exclusion of pandemics and so on. We understand that but we do not understand what happens year after year and why it should not be possible to put into the projections that, subject to X, Y and Z, this is what it is, so that instead of falling short of budget annually, there would be capacity to anticipate to a considerable extent what is likely to come around the corner before it does.