Mr. Jim Breslin:

This might sound like an excuse, but the Comptroller and Auditor General says that because the presence of private hospitals in regions is different, some regions will have more private patients through emergency admissions, whereas in other regions they will go directly to a private hospital. It is hard at a regional level to say that just because there is a low number of private patients, a hospital is doing really well. Those patients might be going to the Blackrock Clinic or the Beacon.