Mr. Damien McCallion:

Our challenge at the moment is to maintain it. We have grown the hours but trying to grow or maintain those hours in recent in terms of the staffing environment is very challenging. The Deputy mentioned Cork and Kerry but there are a number of other areas where retention and recruitment is particularly challenging, be it in the public or private sector. There is a lot of work going on on strategic workforce planning to see what we can do. Looking at the profile of our ageing population, this will need a much broader solution as we go forward because we are a young population at the moment.