Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Could the HSE come back to us with that, please? There are a couple of other things which stand out. Mention was made of additional payments for cross-cover to other service area. The other service area had two consultant posts, one was vacant and one was on sick leave. Obviously, one does not want an area not to be covered so presumably that has an impact on the area, in that I assume there is not spare capacity in the first area. How does that impact on the quality of care? The payment is one thing but there are only so many hours in a day for a person and there could be geographic distances and things like that, I imagine, as well. How does that impact?