Mr. Liam Woods:

I have those data, if the committee will bear with me for one moment. Without going into detail, we are working on accelerating the collection of income. Reference was made to a target of €143 million in the service plan. We are working to achieve that. It is in this context that the issue of the amount of money outstanding in respect of the signing of claim forms arises. Recently, we put new electronic systems into five hospitals - Limerick will go live on the system tomorrow - to assist in this regard. We have a number of specific problems with some consultants in terms of the completion of forms.