Ms Susan Clyne:

Yes. I am not disputing that but, to be clear, we are coming from such a low base. We are coming from a base where, for ten years, the recruitment and retention policy was to pay new entrant consultants 30% less than their existing colleagues. That has been addressed and there is now equitable pay in the new contract. We had a chronic shortage of consultants. We are not attempting to be confrontational. However, we are expressing our members' frustration. They are coming to the IMO and saying they are working these hours. We have hired more people to be able to deal with the HSE and fighting for our members' rights. We have been raising the issues of capacity, bed capacity and workforce planning for more than a decade so, yes, there is a level of frustration on our part. We are not attempting to be political. We are not a political organisation.