Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Ms Cowan references an important point. If one looks at the recruitment of consultants, we cannot fill posts. There is a market. If a person's skill is urgently required and there is a scarce pool of that skill, then that person has an advantage over the HSE or the system since that person is required and can put on pressure by not complying with contracts because he or she knows that nobody else can do the job. Is that possible? Does that happen?