On a related issue, which is relevant to the previous question, there is to be a national review of cardiac services. The Minister for Health has provided Oireachtas Members with a document which sets out the background, the policy context, the terms of reference, the methodology and the structure of the review team which will be on this national review. I have concerns about the terms of reference. The Taoiseach will be aware that this is a big issue for patients in the south east. The document refers to populations being based on the hospital groups and the regions that make up the hospital groups rather than the regions. What scrutiny will there be of these terms of references? Will they be scrutinised by the Joint Committee on Health? Will there be statements in this House? This is a big issue. It is of such importance to the people in the south east and elsewhere that we need to feed into those terms of reference. If the Taoiseach cannot answer now, I ask that he come back to me with a response on when or how Oireachtas Members will have an input into the terms of reference.

I will ask the Minister for Health to respond directly to the Deputy as he is dealing with this matter.

On the Government's programme for Government commitment to reduce the trolley waiting lists, when will the winter waiting list initiative be announced? I specifically point to a request from Letterkenny University Hospital in the summer for an additional €1.8 million which would allow it to open a 20-bed unit and staff it with nurses and supporting staff. It still has not received an answer and the hospital is running with on average 20 patients a day on trolleys. This proposal would address that. The Government has been sitting on it and it is unacceptable. I ask the Taoiseach when that announcement will be made and when Letterkenny will receive its answer to this proposal.

I am not sure whether the Deputy is speaking about trolleys or waiting lists, or both. These are obviously separate issues. The waiting list initiative, in terms of reducing the time people have to wait for hospital appointments for operations and procedures, is very much under way. I am not sure if it was ever formally announced but it is under way. That is why the number of people awaiting operations and procedures in hospitals has fallen for three months in a row and, I expect, within weeks will be at its lowest for a year. I would have to ask the Minister for Health to respond on the specific funding for Letterkenny.