Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do. It concerns the repeated use today of the words "core activities". There appears to be a division among our guests as to what constitute "core" and "non-core" activities. My view is that if nobody is there to open up the doors of the hospital, then any core activity going on within it is somewhat academic. I consider everybody who comes to work on a hospital campus to be "core" and it worries me that there is split opinion among the witnesses as what this does or does not mean. Everybody is involved, be they cleaning the floor; opening the doors; performing operations; providing nursing care or physiotherapy; or indeed facilitating the parking of cars and managing access and egress to the site. All this is core and I am disturbed that there is some division over this. I am using the word used by the witnesses, which is not one that I would use. Could they now address this?