Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My understanding is that the contractors who are working in the HSE are included. For example, we are not differentiating between a doctor or a nurse who works in a HSE hospital and those working in a private hospital or a nursing home, the vast majority of which are private. To the best of my knowledge, no distinction has been made between public and private, which is the right thing to do.

I will need to provide the Deputy with a written response containing the breakdown between the different grades and so forth because it will depend on exactly what information is being recorded by the system.

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