John Perry (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

With the amount of staff who leave the health system, there could not be a corporate ban on any involvement by a former employee in any work once they have left the service. Any civil servant or any person who leaves the State services is not prevented from partaking in any other aspect of life afterwards. That is an important point given the number of people involved. I do not know the background to this story but I have listened very actively today. If we were to take this rule as a rule of the public service, it would mean that anybody who worked for the State would be excluded from doing any consultancy work in any other Department.