Mr. Sebastian Barnes:

The whole health system is opaque to us. It is a major part of public spending and one that has a poor record in terms of budget overruns. We have seen that again. It is hard to obtain information in a timely way or in detail. I would not pick out any aspect as being opaque because our big concern is that we cannot monitor a big part of the public finances until we find out what the number has been for that year. Like, I imagine, the committee, we are trying to understand the underlying processes and drivers. Sláintecare is one but other pressures are coming from costs in different parts of the system. There is incredibly limited information on that and it is a big problem.