Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I strongly support the Chair's proposal regarding action to follow today's meeting. I also support Deputy Carthy's idea that we send on the entire transcript of proceedings. We need to act on the matter because this is the second time around.

The most stark or bizarre statistic today is that 47 people out of a potential 1,000 are have been sworn in or recruited. That is just a horror and it needs to be noted into the transcript. It is shocking. Could we not, like how we did during Covid-19, use the Mater Private Hospital, the Beacon or the private sector to supplement the public sector and volunteer doctors who are members of the RDF? Could that not be part of the solution? It is a horror. It is a shocking indictment that the people in question want to join but cannot do so.