Ms Anne Marie Hoey:

I acknowledge and accept that those staff should get that payment as soon as possible, as our other staff have. The capacity issue is something we identified early on as something we needed to get some support for. As mentioned earlier, we have tendered for capacity support and that will be in place in the coming weeks. We have done some preparatory work within the HSE and with the Department of Health around who the agencies are. The criteria have already been described well at this stage. Once the third-party provider that is going to assist us with the capacity piece is in place, we will start to make those payments as soon as possible.