Dr. Colm Henry:

Just a few things, quickly. The model 2 status emanated, as I am sure the Deputy will remember, from a regional HIQA review which itself was initiated in response to safety concerns over the volume and complexity of cases coming to what are now model 2 hospitals and which resulted in the smaller hospitals framework document. Yes, the mid-west is unique in that it does not have a model 3 hospital but the reason those model 3 hospitals became model 2 hospitals was in response to those - that original HIQA investigation and the smaller hospitals framework. The second point on the populations-----