Mr. Damien McCallion:

To be clear, the capacity piece will partially be addressed by work that is ongoing nationally through the review. There will be an initial touchpoint with the regional executive officers in respect of the review some time in June. In terms of when that work will complete, I cannot give the Senator an absolute end date but I can come back to him on that point. The initial purpose of the review was to take an initial stock take. It is important that the national capacity review will consider this based on evidence. It will look at population and need, and will look across the system. That will determine the future long-term investments. Substantial investment is obviously already scheduled for Limerick in respect of acute beds and other services.