Ms Anne Marie Hoey:

The data that we have indicate the reasons for leaving and they are many and varied. Some people retire, resign or go on career breaks, go to travel and so on. Depending on the reason for the leavers, we try to target and attract people to stay in touch with us. Over the next number of weeks we will have a career hub or talent attraction unit going live whereby we will keep in touch with all of our staff in order that they can see the opportunities that are arising for recruitment in the health services. We also have other attraction mechanisms in terms of our recruitment whereby we are engaging very early on with the undergraduate students in colleges to make them aware in years 1, 2 and 3 of their career opportunities. There are many career opportunities for the staff who are with us as well in terms of development, career progression and so on. We have to continue to make our staff aware of them. On the survey, the CEO has already mentioned that we will be doing a full HSE-wide survey over the course of May and June this year. That will give us very rich data in terms of the staff who are working with us, their experience of working with us and the areas where we can and will improve. That will build on previous surveys that we have undertaken.