Mr. Paul Reid:

Sorry, I may have interpreted the Deputy's question wrongly. We do use significant external expertise and are doing so in Galway. It is expertise that we could not build up within the health system ourselves. That is not unusual for a public service. We are a health service. Our core model is health delivery. We do have expertise in-house and we are strengthening it but we will always use significant external expertise.

On the pipeline delays and particularly with Galway, which I am very familiar with, there are significant planning issues that we have to work through. Highly significant objections emerged at early stages of planning. That can be part of the -----