David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)

I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. First of all, I will make the point that I have been on the health committee for five years or more, I have seen lots of committee sessions on Revised Estimates, and there is a gap or a hole in the health budget almost every year. It has got smaller this year, thankfully, but we have had years where it has been much more significant. I have been trying to put a focus on what I have been calling "transparent funding". At the start of every year, when we get to budget time, there is a big ask from the Department of Health, because of the nature of health, for existing levels of service funding to pay for pay, demographic changes, etc. That is a huge amount of money every year before we look at new measures. There are many contributing factors, but one of them, we were told in recent years, was that health inflation was very high. What is health inflation running at currently or what was it running at for 2025?