Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

A couple of other members wish to come in for a second time. Regarding what we are hearing this morning, there are two narratives. There is the narrative of those who resigned that there was resistance. The Minister and the Secretary General are saying that we are on track, with 97% progress and so forth. People were asked about where the resistance is coming from and the Minister and his officials are saying that there was no resistance or that if there was, they are not aware of it. That is the conundrum for this committee. I presume that if we can get some of the people who resigned before the committee, we will get a better sense of what was happening. The only real answer we got this morning was that any cause of delay was basically down to Covid-19, and that if there was a resistance at all it is down to Covid-19. Am I correct in that summary so far? The Minister is not aware of where the resisters are. Are they in the HSE or in the Department of Health?