Mr. Brendan Lennon:

Yes, that was mentioned and the Minister said there was no issue on his end. This was in May 2023 and he mentioned a figure. Approximately €350 million is available to the HSE to address waiting lists and that was not the issue at the time. The outstanding challenge, as we understood it, was that the HSE did not want to proceed until it could be sure it would have good oversight of any waiting list initiative. When I say "oversight", I mean that any interventions, protocols and all the work done would be recorded-----