David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Exactly. That is my point. Unless that was put into the base for next year, we will have the same problem again next year, with a deficit running again in 2024. That is the difficulty. If I then come to ELS, I want to be clear about what that means. Existing levels of service means to simply stand still, to provide for demographic pressures, inflation, pay and all of those issues. What was the figure that the Department had sought for ELS for 2024, as opposed to the €708 million the HSE got?