Dr. Sara Burke:

That is why we need to start training them now. We also need to be doing that system reform in order that it is a more attractive place for them to work. We need to be putting measures in place that mind the staff that are currently there. I do not know what hospital the Deputy was in, but if you go to most Dublin hospitals, most of the people who work there commute for a long time each day because of the housing crisis and because they cannot afford to live near the hospital. We need to find ways of addressing that. A few of the voluntary hospitals are buying apartment buildings to house their students and some of their nurses because accommodation is so difficult to find. We need make their place of work a more appealing place to work, which requires the reform. We need to support and nurture those who are there to stay, and to train more in order that we can hire more in place. It is that focus that must take place in the non-acute setting.