Mr. David Moloney:

I would have to check as I do not know off-hand. There is a challenge with comparable data across health sectors because so many people include different things in their definition of health. The separate definitions of health and social care vary hugely from country to country. As for the numbers we use, we relied on the OECD data for those. As for the preferred measure from the Department of Health for per capitaspend on a purchasing power parity basis, as I understand it, even those numbers show Ireland as being 20% above the EU average in terms of expenditure.