Mr. Paul Reid:

I share the Deputy's concern, particularly on some of the procedures he spoke about. There is a dual pathway from other administrations that avail of some of our services in terms of healthcare. We have, with the Department and through the Minister, secured €200 million of funding for the HSE this year. That is an access to care fund that is primarily focused on increasing the capacity in the public system, utilising some extra capacity in the private system and developing new pathways to make it more efficient and effective, get more people through and get them their care. That is a published plan with ourselves and the Minister. It is extra funding to increase capacity across outpatient waiting lists, inpatients and day cases, GIs and scopes. That is our approach to it. We would like to see this addressed but we do have to avail of that capacity in the interim.