Dr. Donal de Buitléir:

I do not know any more about this than the Deputy does, but it would strike me as reasonable that there would be a better standard of service from somebody who is there all the time, is fully committed to the experience and knows the patients, compared to somebody who is coming into the workplace temporarily. Sometimes locum or agency nurses are in a workplace for one day and they are not there the next day so there is no continuity. The Chairman will be able to better inform us on that than I would but it seems to be fairly obvious.