Thank you for the statement and for giving us prior sight of it. But I have to say that it’s an astonishing statement in many ways, and I’m afraid that it doesn’t seem to reflect the reality of the dental service or patient experience at any level. It’s another one of these statements that gives the impression either that everything is fine or that there are problems, but those problems are in hand—when all of the evidence before us demonstrates that that isn’t the case. The signs were poor early on in the statement when the Minister said: