Mr. Paul Reid:

The point I was making was that I fully acknowledge the representations Deputies get. I get significant numbers of them on a regular basis, as do all of my colleagues who are here today. All of them are quite heartbreaking. This is a system that we want to fix - everybody in this room today and all of my colleagues. I do not think anybody has a monopoly on the hurt or feeling passionate about this issue. I know the team here today. It is not appropriate to target management as carrying the shame on this one because, to be quite frank, we want to solve this issue. We have a legacy issue here for many years. The service is broken. It is not right. I have committed, but I cannot give Deputy Ward an assurance here today. The assurance I can give is that we are committed to resourcing this effectively and to shifting the care into the community disability networks. We are committed to transforming the care in communities in a much better way, specifically for children with disabilities. We are committed to getting the resources from the Government for it. We have got significant resources in the past two years. It is a challenge all across the waiting lists. We secured further extra funding this year. Some of the approaches we will be taking in some specialties include the use of some capacity in private care to help us address some of these very significant waiting lists. I assure the committee that we have the same passion as they do. We get the same representations as they do. I acknowledge that many children and their families across the country are getting good care but, equally, I acknowledge that many are not getting the care that we want to provide. That is the system we are trying to fix.