David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our witnesses. I will start with the working hours for junior doctors. We have been talking about this issue for a long time. As we know, there was a report and it made recommendations but it is still a big issue. I know it is in the opening statement but will the witnesses clarify again that doctors working beyond the 48 hours is illegal in that it breaches the Act? The first thing we should say is that we are asking doctors to work where doing so is a clear breach of legislation.