Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

For example, looking at theatre utilisation, consultants come to me and say they want to do more but the theatres have to start, there has to be knife to skin at 7.30 a.m. or 8 a.m., not different people coming on a shift at 7.30 a.m., 8 a.m. or 8.30 a.m. and it is knife to skin at 9 a.m. If the first team are in and knife to skin at 8 a.m., we can get extra surgeries done throughout the day. It is how these assets are organised. That is not necessarily the consultant's responsibility to do that but it can be seen they want to do more and we have to organise our services and infrastructure so they can do more.