Today's six-month Government Plan for living with Covid-19 is inextricably linked to a second plan to be published later this week.
The one thing the health service is not short of is plans. The HSE Winter Plan, expected on Thursday, is getting €600 million in new funding, we have been told, to protect services up to next March.
So, presumably that means that no money is being diverted from existing services that are on hold or that cannot be delivered at the same scale as planned due to Covid-19.
Almost seven months into this crisis, people are being promised extra hospital beds, more home care hours, community assessment hubs for people with respiratory illnesses to keep them out of hospital, as well as a wider free flu vaccination