Mr. Damien McCallion:

We have been meeting the chief executives every week for the past while to engage with them solely on the topic of the actions they are taking. There is also contact every day with all sites on their urgent and emergency care and where the pressures are. As the Senator knows, Limerick is one of our most pressured emergency departments, or urgent emergency care as we call it. They have a series of actions locally. They do well with community discharge. There are very few patients in Limerick. It is one of the best performers in terms of flow out. However, there are challenges in the hospital and obviously with the admission rate. They are focused on those solutions. We meet with them weekly at a senior level, but there is daily engagement with UHL about what it can do through that tricky period of Christmas and the new year.