Dr. Orla Healy:

The Department and ourselves are at one on this. There is no difference of opinion. We work collaboratively and make our submissions to the Department for funding and so forth. As will have been seen from our meeting, we are at one. There was that small matter of the pandemic in the meantime.

I will pick up on an earlier point because the Cathaoirleach asked about the undergraduate and postgraduate education, and my colleague, Dr. O'Dwyer, mentioned the online training. That training is accompanied by a governance structure for sepsis in all of our acute hospitals and bearing in mind that most healthcare professionals go through the hospital system, every hospital group in the country has an assistant director of nursing dedicated to sepsis. That includes the paediatric hospitals, of which there are seven throughout the country. Their job is specifically geared towards training and audit. All of our hospitals also have both sepsis and deteriorating patient committees. There is a governance structure there to oversee that education, training and audit. We have both the proactive education and training, and also the assurance piece in that setting.