Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is 60% private. It went from 50:50 to 60:40 but one of the recommendations in the strategic workforce advisory group is that we would move back again, as best we can, to a 50:50 split. We have asked all nine CHOs to put in place a recurring recruitment campaign for health care workers. The point I will come back to as well is that some people who were health care workers no longer want to work in that space. We are doing everything we can to try to support workers in that space and to try to make it a viable career pathway for them.