Mr. Kevin Duffy:

What the Chair says just confirms what we found, as set out in the report, namely, that a multiplicity of factors are causing difficulties. These relate to the physical environment in which people work and, in some part, to the conditions under which people work. In addition, some areas of the country are less attractive to people to work in than others. There is no single issue that one could focus on to solve the totality of that problem. A whole package of measures needs to be looked at, which is what we tried to do in the report. Our terms of reference were broad. We were asked to look at whether there were problems in recruitment and retention and to what extent they existed. We were also asked to look at what factors may have contributed to them. As the Chair and her colleagues will see from our report, we have identified a raft of factors. I will not take up the time of the committee by going into all of them.