Marie Sherlock (Dublin Central, Labour)
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I thank the Minister and Ms McGirr for that. There has been a lot of talk today about the agency spend. It is going to be more than €750 million this year. There has been a lot of talk about trying to bring it under control because it is going up rather than down. What is the plan regarding agency spend? When we have this discussion this time next year, what can we expect to be talking about?

My sense of the conversation is that we are trying and we are not making any progress and a new plan needs to be put in place. For instance, in the UK, some of the trusts have an actual locum organisation within the trust. Is any of that thinking going on in the Department?