Mr. Liam Woods:

The adequate availability of appropriate personnel and equipment is one of our key challenges. As we heard earlier, there is a need to provide training and to ensure the workforce plan that is in effect is a subset of the overall plan here. Deputy O'Reilly spoke strongly on the need to reflect on how we can attract and retain appropriate personnel. That will have to be set out in a strategy. We are doing wider work on workforce planning within the HSE. We are engaging with our colleagues in the INMO in that regard. As far as we are concerned, the key deficiencies relate to access to appropriate clinical and diagnostic personnel within the system and, to a lesser extent, equipping. I do not think equipping is a huge issue in this area.