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

Locums are in place temporarily. They will move on to another job once it becomes available. It is hit and miss.

There is no guarantee of how long they will stay and then we are trying to get a replacement. It is consuming considerable time of administrative staff as well. Is sufficient forward planning being done? I fully accept that there has been a significant number of staff recruited over the past number of years, but I am talking about long-term planning.

The next issue I want to move on to-----