Professor Matthew Sadlier:

I will pass over to Dr. McNamara shortly. I am a consultant now but was a junior doctor for a long time. I got involved with this organisation in 2002. I am now saying exactly the same thing I said 22 years ago, although to a largely different group of politicians. The message is largely the exact same. What has happened over those 22 years is that as I said earlier, medicine has become more complicated. When I worked as a senior house officer, SHO, in an emergency department, I was able to see 16 or 17 patients per night.