Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

To go back to the question of the recruitment pause, from the way Mr. Gloster described it, I understand that the recruitment of anyone who has accepted an offer of a job in writing will proceed but the recruitment of others will not. That is random, is it not? Did Mr. Gloster take that approach for contractual reasons? It does not seem to make sense. Theoretically, there could be a high uptake in one area by chance and a low uptake in another because the offers were not made until recently. Will that skew the HSE's numbers?