Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps it is time we started to look for them to be collated to deal with this issue. These people are providing a level of care for the general public. They are doing their best to deliver a service in the best possible way and they are being hindered from doing so. As people said earlier, it is devastating for someone to go home from work having been assaulted the night or day before and then having to face going back into work within a short time period afterwards.

I will move on to another issue regarding the hours junior doctors are doing and the burnout that can happen. From the IMO's point of view, what is the up-to-date information with regard to hours junior doctors are doing and the stress levels that arise as a result of either the verbal abuse or sometimes even physical abuse? Have we different challenges in different areas of the country about the hours junior doctors are required to do, which is then causing a problem?