Mr. Damien McCallion:

From the HSE's perspective, we are obliged to follow the public spending code on capital projects and that is what we are trying to work through. On some of the smaller projects, such as the surgical hubs, we managed to expedite those because their scale is smaller. We know they are effective in the short term at reducing one particular aspect of day-case working for certain specialties, based on our experience in Tallaght. That is why those have been expedited. I accept the point that the demography is going to create more challenges for us in terms of demand. It is important that we do everything we can to fast-track big capital projects. Again, we must work within the standards that are set out in the code.