Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The safe staffing levels the Deputy and I both advocated very strongly last year have not happened, unfortunately. What I found out was that while progress was being made, that progress was essentially stopped dead because of Covid. We are working with the INMO, and I have met INMO representatives and discussed this with them. We continue to work it through with them to get to safe staffing for nurses and midwives around the country. It is a top priority for the Government.