Martin Daly (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)

I accept the Minister's answer but the core of this is while the use of agency staff is absolutely necessary at time, it provides workers into the health service but we do not get the continuity of care we get with permanent staff. On one hand, we say we are down on core pay, but we are up on agency. I would prefer to see our core pay overspent because we have permanent staff and continuity of care and proper planning within the health service rather than spending money on agency staff. That is just a reflection but I accept the Minister's answer on that.