Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Again, I do not disagree. Healthcare systems the world over are challenged around how to incentivise people to stay and what that means. It relates to work-life balance and lots of other things. It is not just about money. The 167,000 people I talked about who make up almost 150,000 whole-time equivalents are not agency staff. They are all full-time staff in the HSE and section 38 agencies of the HSE. The dependency on international recruitment is quite high, both in nursing and in some elements of the non-consultant hospital doctor, NCHD, profile, as well as to a lesser extent in the allied health professionals area. Ms Hoey will be able to elaborate further on that. The global workforce is rapidly changing and the day of any graduate taking a job with us and it being a whole-of-life job has probably passed. It is much more dynamic than that. There are always things we can do to improve the situation. On the international nurse recruitment, we have continued with it.