Ms Susan Clyne:

In fairness to the HSE and the Department, we engaged with them very quickly at the outset of the pandemic. However, that was more in regard to GP issues. We have had little or no engagement about the building up of capacity. We are disappointed that some of our manpower requests have not been addressed. In fairness to both the HSE and the Department, the core issue behind most requests from organisations like our own or the Irish Cancer Society is funding.