Mr. Bernard Gloster:

There is a fundamental challenge to this. There might be a view abroad that we started this year with a flat budget adequate for what we needed and we overspent that by €1.5 billion. That is not the case. We started the year with an inadequate level of existing service funding. I am sure members have heard the Minister's comments in the last fortnight. To be fair to him and to the cabinet committee on health which I attended two weeks ago, there is a real effort and commitment to try to sort out the existing level of service cost in real terms and to put in the proper controls to not breach that once we have it in certain parts of the organisation, and to do that before we start adding more new developments that will give us more existing level of service, ELS, problems next year and the year after.