Since this Government came into office, the largest ever increase in health funding has been accompanied by unprecedented work on planning comprehensively for the future. Quite a number of new services have been brought on stream. In my health board area, in which there are three major general hospitals, it was decided, arising from the Shaw report a few years ago, that there would be one hospital on each of three sites. Each hospital provides a particular type of service, some providing specialties not provided by the others. In the recent past, we have secured the appointment of A&E consultants. People may say that is no big deal, that we should have had them already. Of course we should, but we did not have them until recently. We have also got additional consultants in Mullingar in the area of gynaecology, obstetrics and paediatrics.