Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

It is not as much that. Part of the savings is about staying within profile. For example, the use of a virtual ward, while it might not be a saving cost that I can show the Deputy directly, saves 30 bed nights and those costs help stay within profile as well. All of those things are very important.

The outpatient department, OPD, productivity measures, and the more quickly people are getting appointments, are a saving later in terms of insourcing and the NTPF and a saving in overall care because of earlier intervention. There is the workforce rostering, maximising the use of the public-only consultant contract, which we are paying for but not necessarily getting the value from. While they are not figures that I can show the Deputy, we are getting better productivity and better output from what we are spending.