Ms Phil Ní Sheaghdha:

We believe that can be done. There must be a funded workforce plan in place based on science which states that patients do better if there is a skill mix of 80:20 in an acute hospital and 70:30 outside of an acute hospital. That is what the science tells us and the numbers must reflect that. Otherwise, it is stating that it is okay to base our figures on unsafe levels of care and we do not accept that.