Ms Josephine Ryan Leacy:

Last year with the risk-sharing agreement, we absolutely broke even. We identified what we needed. We set out with the HSE the identified areas it had not funded. We cannot build on the €48.7 million deficit. What we hoped for this year was to start off with the budget we had forecast, and to have discussions on how to get as near as possible to that. Then what we would have to do is map our services accordingly. We absolutely want to get the SLA signed.