Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)

That would be a higher proportion. One must include support staff too.

It is a great disappointment because we were discussing last week everything that had been sought for the past five years and which is central to the transformation of our health service, including a longer working day, a five over seven working week, different rostering and particularly redeployment. These are all central if we are to move from hospital-based services to community and primary care and to have the appropriate staff ratios and so on. I hope we will be able to resume that agenda very quickly. When everybody has had an opportunity to reflect and perhaps have a break because there were a lot of all night meetings over the past few weeks-----

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