Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will ask Professor Cowan about the HSE's relationship with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO. I imagine it has not been easy. INMO members have been fantastic, as have all the staff, which we can never acknowledge enough. On HSE engagement with the INMO, has the HSE taken some of its proposals and suggestions on board? In the response to Deputy Carey, I was quite taken aback that it was said the only meeting that was had with the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, was when he visited the hospital in Limerick. I would have thought, as CEO, that the Minister would have wanted to engage, especially given the media attention that UHL receives on a regular basis as a result of the trolley numbers. I would have thought the Minister would have wanted to engage and get updates from the HSE directly on a more regular basis than that. Maybe I picked it up wrong, but the witnesses might confirm how often they have met the Minister since his appointment.