Mr. Paul Reid:

A straight answer in terms of timing is "Yes", as part of our plan and strategy to address waiting lists, which have been significantly impacted during Covid, as everybody knows. There are a few strands to it. One of those strands will definitely be how we engage private capacity and utilise it as part of addressing those waiting lists. We all need to recognise that there is a private health system in place that has significant capacity, capability and skills. Given the extent of the waiting lists we have, it needs to be about increasing capacity in the public health system and the private health system and also doing things differently. I will give a very brief example of that. In Citywest, we built a temporary hospital that is now used significantly for addressing some elements of the waiting lists, specifically and particularly in respect of children's waiting lists. We see it as being a combination of doing things differently, increasing our capacity in the public system and utilising capacity in the private system.