Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have to interrupt Ms Ní Sheaghdha. That is more astonishing evidence she has given us, but I wish to ask her one final question. We received an answer to a parliamentary question to the effect that fewer than 180 staff were recruited under the call to Ireland. We know that doctors and nurses are very angry about how they have been treated, and when they have been recruited they have been recruited under agencies which treat them very differently from the way they are treated by the HSE. Facing into the current crisis, does Ms Ní Sheaghdha think the State is missing out on a huge opportunity not just to deal with Covid but also to increase the capacity of the health service overall, which is urgently required?