We must sort out the public-private mix which is ingrained in our system at this stage. I am interested in the recommendation that we should discontinue tax breaks for private hospitals. We must sort out this matter. We must bring the closed beds back into use but this should not take away from the fact that everyone accepts we need to replace the beds that were taken out of the acute hospital service at the end of the 1980s. We have 3,000 more acute hospital beds now than we had then. These must be replaced, otherwise all the talk of reform and all the reports over the last 16 to 18 months will be as naught.