Ms Anne O'Connor:

At the time, there was a concern around the funding for 2019 and 2020. It has possibly been covered already but the concern was the phasing of the funding. The potential for the health service to provide €25 million this year and more next year was a concern at that time. As the director general just said, we are now in a process with the Departments of Health and Public Expenditure and Reform to look at that because it was a concern. The purpose of the letter was to flag that but things have moved on in the past number of weeks in the engagements that have taken place.