Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These decisions involve me but they also involve my colleagues in the Department. To be helpful, I absolutely see a role for the IHCA and I take fully the point made by the Senator. I want it to be engaged. There are many excellent representatives in the organisation. They are very sincere and want to make a difference. In case I did not say it clearly enough, I hope and expect that after initial engagement with the IMO, the talks will be broadened to include other representative bodies such as the IHCA. This is the process I am following. No one need be excluded and no one need feel entrenched. There will be engagement on the immediate issues of recruitment and retention. The CEO attended the IHCA conference and I will ask him to speak on the matter.