The national treatment purchase fund, NTPF, is being used to purchase treatment for public patients from private hospitals in Ireland or international providers where it is not possible to treat them within a reasonable period in Ireland. Here again we prioritised expenditure. Public patients waiting longer than 12 months or two years for treatment represent a core equity issue. To date, 3,337 patients have been treated under the fund. Some €31 million has been provided in 2003 for the NTPF, the target of which is to treat 600 patients per month. The fund is also getting to grips more effectively with the statistics behind the waiting lists. We have got some interesting returns in the lists we get from the health boards. Of the 11,000 on the long waiters' list in 2002, the number is now down to 3,000. Some of the numbers were reduced through validation, the process of offering an operation to a person and then discovering that he or she may have had it or no longer needs it. I can provide the figures later for the House. They are a sign of the progress we are making on the issue of equity and quality of life.