Ms Phil Ní Sheaghdha:

I wish it were as simple as that. Unfortunately, the pressure exists throughout the system. The statistics that we have show us that there is an increase in resignations at nurse manager grades. Nurse managers are now finding it extremely difficult to manage in a system into which they have no financial input and over which they have no control in terms of who is recruited, how recruitment takes place or even whether recruitment can take place, despite the clinical need. The lack of autonomy of nursing managers is causing an increase in resignations, as evidenced by the statistics. That is hugely problematic.