Mr. Damien McCallion:

The Deputy is right that this is a big risk. To mitigate that risk throughout this year we developed a model over bank holiday weekends, working with all of the CEOs and clinical directors of the hospitals and the chief officers in the community, to make sure there was alignment to keep flow so that it increases the number of discharges at weekends. We have seen improvements in that. Christmas is always challenging because there are two bank holidays very close together. We have a particular focus on that. We have daily and weekly calls with the CEOs, clinical directors and chief officers around making sure the services that need to be in place are there to protect the flow of patients and to enable discharges. That includes access to capacity outside our own system in terms of transitional care and-----