Mr. Tadhg Daly:

Yes. We had written to the director general of the HSE and to the Minister. There were three letters on that occasion, on 9 March, outlining our concerns around that issue. What happened was people were on panels in some cases. There was also, we would suggest, a targeting of people who were working in the sector. We would have made the point that denuded one element of the health service to support another element, which was counterproductive. We would have asked for a moratorium on recruitment. This happens on an ongoing basis and people transfer for whatever reason. However, in the teeth of the global pandemic, we felt it was appropriate to ask the HSE to do that. It did not agree to do that at the time but there has been some improvements in that respect over the past number of weeks.