Mr. Tony Canavan:

It is a significant gap and it reflects the comments made by the CEO in his opening statement relating to the growth in demand for neurological services generally and our ability to respond to that with our current level of resources. We do not have a firm or funded plan to provide neurological services at Mayo University Hospital currently. We need to look at the provision of those services in the context of an overall strategy for the region and within the hospital group. There are other model 3 hospitals in our region that are also struggling to provide adequate neurological services. Even the model 4 hospital in Galway, with the current resource, is struggling with the workload. There is a clear and demonstrated need for additional support but how we provide that and where it is located is the issue. We have to be very clear that we are doing the best that we can on that.