Mr. Éamonn Donnelly:

No, because there is no joined-up workforce planning. There was a time when we would ask for a workforce planning sheet and be denied access to it. That is about the level we are at. When we look at the pressures on the health system, it is clear that a multi-annual budgeting and workforce planning arrangement is needed. People in the union movement do not need to be workforce planners. That is not our function. The function of the people who plan the service is to act as workforce planners. When the union is asked to give a commentary on some of the pressures on the health system, it needs to say that multi-annual workforce planning, based on where we want the health service to be four or five years from now, is a must.