Ms Rosarii Mannion:

Towards Successful Consultant Recruitment, Appointment and Retention, which was specifically commissioned to address a number of the issues that were raised here. A lot of these are legacy issues, and a lot of the time we would not start from where we are at which is neither here nor there. We have been working through, in a very fastidious way, the recommendations and the implementation plan and I am delighted to say that we are making progress. Thus the figures for February 2018 are that we have in excess of 300 additional medical staff on the payroll over what we had in 2017, almost 100 more consultants, and 260 non-consultant hospital doctors, NCHDs, and I can furnish all of that information.