Mr. Éamonn Donnelly:

I agree with what my colleague, Ms Ní Sheaghdha, has said on burnout but if we get a second wave it will be very difficult to call on the exact same cohort of people to provide the same response.

I wonder about all of the excitement surrounding Be on Call for Ireland when it was announced. That campaign has since been stood down. To my mind, we will not be able to deal with a second wave without the ability to have a fluid migration of the workforce into the health services. We have to be upfront about that. We are in a better place to be able to deal with a second wave due to testing and tracing and so on but, for the reasons my colleague outlined, the workforce in health is pretty much at burnout stage. The HSE needs to be right at the top of the game in ensuring the health services are compliant with the return to work safely protocols. That is not the case and the HSE is behind the pace on that matter.