Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There are established and well-tried industrial relations procedures to deal with any disputes that arise, particularly in our health service. As I said, there has been a significant increase in healthcare staff in recent years, higher than any comparable period before 2020.

For any new health facility, there will be engagement on the staffing arrangements for the new facility. That is not new in the context of other facilities that have been opened in the past. There will have to be a correct deployment in terms of numbers and so on to ensure not only the standard of the physical attributes, if you like, of the new hospital, which will be state of the art when completed, but also to ensure a sufficiency of human capital, the people working there, the doctors, nurses, social and healthcare professionals, and all the other staff who work in the hospital. I am sure that will be worked out between the different bodies and agencies.

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