Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Were we to do that, it would create risks for our ability to fund our public services in the future. Moratorium is not the word I would use. All I asked, which I believe was reasonable, was that the health sector would only go ahead with recruitment that is funded and that it has the money to fund. To use the Deputy's word, since the introduction of the moratorium, the number of people hired in our health service has increased. The service has hired more people and more people are now working in the health service.