Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Very well. I thank the Minister.

I move to recruitment, an area in which there is a crisis. Throughout the country there is a crisis in the recruitment of consultants, while individual hospitals face crises in the recruitment of mental health professionals, therapists, nurses, midwives and many other grades. The Minister has written to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. Has he also written to the Irish Hospital Consultants Association to offer to hold talks?