Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is exactly what we are focusing on. It is incumbent on the Members of the Oireachtas to keep the focus on both. I fully accept the position of clinicians who say they need more capacity. They do. As the Deputy will be aware, we have added more community and hospital capacity than at any time since the foundation of the HSE and we will continue to do that. At the same time, we must keep focusing on different ways of working. That is the core of the new consultant contract, which we will be offering later this month.

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