Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I mentioned the figure of 698. Can Dr. Pidgeon respond to that point, please?

I have received communications stating that health care assistants, whom I mentioned earlier, are frustrated at the length of time it takes to register.

They are leaving the country and going to the UK, where they can be registered within a matter of weeks. Is the documentation they use in the UK not accepted in Ireland? Why can they be registered quickly there when it takes so long to do it here? We have 1,398 people with incomplete documentation.