Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I believe we should just be hiring into Sláintecare contracts. We want to move to public-only work in the public hospitals. This still all has to be worked out; this is my view. All new hires should be on the new Sláintecare contract. I imagine as soon as we have it in, everyone on an A contract will move across straight away because it is kind of the same but with more money and supports around it. Then, there is a good conversation to be had with those on the B contracts to see who wants to move across. My view and, I believe, that of Deputy Shortall is that we want as many as possible on the Sláintecare contracts as quickly as possible.