Dr. Cathal Morgan:

I can give a commitment to meeting with the professional bodies. I have met them, apart from the members of the Psychological Society of Ireland who were not free on the day. One of the commitments I gave was to ensure we had ongoing dialogue regarding professional capacity building for therapy grades in the system, and to continually engage on that basis. I am happy to reconstitute the group again. Under the auspices of Fórsa, we have strong clinicians sitting around the table who link back to their professional bodies. I am sure we can address the issue of the time range so that clinicians do not feel they are compromised. We have also engaged with CORU and continue to do so, as we have to satisfy that body. We committed to getting back to its members following the consultation process to ask them if it was in contravention of the code of ethics or of particular regulations. We will not implement a SOP that would put a clinician in jeopardy. The HSE, as employer, has to take responsibility for this from the point of view of professional indemnity.