Mr. Seán Egan:

We can point to a number of reforms that have occurred within Limerick across lots of different areas to improve efficiency in the provision of services over the last number of years. It is important to flag, as we outlined in the advices document, that the primary issue here is a lack of inpatient beds for those who require what we call undifferentiated care. These are people who just need to be admitted to an acute bed in a model 4 hospital. That is the biggest deficit.