Annie Hoey (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank everyone for coming in this morning. I will jump to my favourite topic, which is always students and students who work in the healthcare system in particular. How many student medical staff across the board are working in the HSE? How vital are student nurses and midwives or other healthcare student cohorts? Do they represent an important part of staffing in a context in which we are thinking about staffing shortages? Are they a vital part of the staffing cohort where there are staffing shortages or how do they interplay with that? I have other questions and will come back in with those, if it is okay.