Mr. Bernard Gloster:

We have often talked in this committee about cross-learning from best practice in other hospitals and how accident and emergency departments are run. I asked the manager of the hospital in Waterford to go to Naas recently and spend some time with the staff there. She did that and offered some very good assistance, all of which helps. I do, however, take the point made by the Deputy. There is a rapidly growing population and we need to keep expanding.