Mr. Eoin Dormer:

On the recruitment during the year, as the Secretary General mentioned, there is a pay and numbers process in which colleagues in the Department of Health engage with the HSE in relation to the funded level of recruitment during the year, how that is profiled or planned on a monthly basis and what staff will be recruited in what categories, be it doctors, nurses or administrative staff. There is reporting and monitoring of that during the year. They engage in that process on a monthly basis to match what has been recruited in different categories versus what was planned. As with a lot of other areas and sectors, however, that is also subject to the challenges in the labour market. It is a difficult area to manage, in fairness to them.