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

I am nearly finished. There are three or four things in terms of governance failures to which attention is being drawn. I would have expected them to be addressed after the previous significant issue arose. To be perfectly honest, I understand that people get sick and have to be afforded time for leave, but there has been a pattern here. A significant issue arises and a person becomes unavailable because he or she is on sick leave. It cannot be a pattern that we allow to persist. One way of doing that is to ensure that people know they will be back here again and again until we get this resolved.