Dr. Rachel McNamara:

I will give a practical example on that. With the agreement in 2022, the idea was that each hospital service would take its population of doctors and the hours that need to be covered 24-7 and divide them into each other to work out the minimum viable number of doctors needed that would be European working time directive-compliant. That is a legal number. The only hospital I heard of doing this, which I saw in an article, was Letterkenny. When it did that exercise, it found that it was short by 30 non-consultant hospital doctors. It cannot do anything with that. There is an embargo. It cannot move to remedy that. The idea of this agreement around working hours was that they would do the maths, see how many they need and then recruit. Until you do that, you will not make any inroads on this unsafe practice of making doctors work outrageous hours. That is my main point. I will pass over to Dr. Gilligan.