Mr. Pat Healy:

We are doing a lot to try to improve community waiting lists. We have made significant investment in our health and social care professionals. As the CEO mentioned, there is a primary care initiative we are working on at present. We are behind our targets. We have a specific initiative on psychology under way, where more than €5 million has been invested this year and more than €24 million has been invested over the past five years on a psychology waiting list initiative. This has reduced the list by approximately 16,000. For audiology we have an initiative this year that will see the list reduced by 3,000. We are making some progress in this area and more needs to be done. The recruitment of therapists is a key part of this and the initiative we are looking at with regard to primary care will have a significant impact on this in the coming period.