Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I will finish my answer to the first question. Now that we have the five over seven agreement and the public-only contract, each of the regions has to establish at least one speciality doing outpatient clinics on Saturdays from the end of August. This is to use the space and the new agreement and also to increase the productivity. Getting over the insourcing hump will be the point at which we will turn that around to be able to scale it up, but I do not want to wait to scale it. I want to start it straight away.

Regarding ophthalmology in Cork, I do not have the exact figures with me but I was in Ballincollig two weeks ago. The new pathway that is working there is seeing more patients. There is no question about that. The eye and ear hospital is seeing many more patients. The problem is that demand is outstripping what we are able to do at the moment.