Ms Susan Clyne:

There are many barriers to recruitment across the country, in the cities as well as west of the Shannon but unless the Department and the HSE sits down with us, listens to us and resolves these problems, they will get worse. That is just a simple fact. It is not always about money. Doctors and all other healthcare workers want to be able to work in a system that allows them to do the job for which they were trained. It is time to sit down with us and work through these issues. We raise them at this committee and similar fora all of the time but nothing happens. The culture and attitude of the Department and the HSE to the medical profession has to drastically change.