Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I think we could be better at it. We have a lot of data that come out of hospitals from the hospital in-patient enquiry, HIPE, coding system of their activities, from their emergency department numbers and from their outpatients on the waiting list action plan. We need to get a more mature level of performance assurance, which I hope to do through the six regions. It is a matter of how we integrate all that data and what they tell us. We could do better in that regard. At the moment, it is very variable. I am sure the Senator knows that. As I said just before the Senator came in, Letterkenny hospital was the story last week. It was Limerick hospital yesterday, it will be Galway another day and so on. It is variable. Limerick hospital is on the news for trolleys all the time but it is one of the significant performers when it comes to managing outpatient waiting lists, for example. The picture is variable and we could do better.