Mr. David Walsh:

On agency staff, the HSE issued an instruction to the agencies we deal with very early in this process not to facilitate agency staff working in multiple locations.

Regarding HSE recruitment of private nursing home staff, where I have been asked to by Nursing Homes Ireland, I have followed up in specific cases. We have a policy of not targeting private nursing home staff and where people were already in process, in some cases we have delayed that recruitment in order to facilitate the nursing home. However, there has always been an element of travel between public, voluntary and private across long-term care.