Ms Rosarii Mannion:

I always believe more can be done and more will be done. I am confident that we will be in a stronger position come December in terms of the level of focused attention on this particular issue.

On the point regarding the medical workforce, from February to date we have grown our medical workforce by 98 additional consultants and 288 additional NCHDs. Notwithstanding that we are growing our medical workforce and moving in the right direction, I accept that as per the capacity review that has been referenced we need to do grow it further with greater speed and efficiency. We are picking up the issues around recruitment and hope to focus more on the retention issues etc. through the good offices of my colleague, Professor Frank Murray. To alleviate any doubt, there is quite a lot happening.