Mr. David Moloney:

It can be difficult to say. We live in a country with a high cost of living. Some of the international studies around the general cost of living would reflect that. When we look at comparative pay rates across the health sector, they compare favourably. We attract high-quality health workers through high-quality terms and conditions. Those factors feed in. It is also important to remember the quality of the health system itself.

A recent OECD report referenced the very rapid improvements in life expectancy, which speaks to the ability of the health sector to perform very well under many of the criteria set out in the OECD assessment of these things. We are a high-income country. We fund a good-quality health service and we invest in it. We have invested in it over the past number of years in particular, as I said, with €7.4 billion and 24,000 extra staff since 2019.