Health Services Staff
Dail Éireann — 2023-07-04
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Aindrias Moynihan (FF), Cork North-West

One of the biggest challenges in the disability healthcare sector relates to having people available to deliver the much-needed services to clients. A great deal is involved in training people and preparing them to deliver a service. Has the Minister of State engaged with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to increase the number of training places in colleges and to bring forward additional occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, social workers, child and adolescent mental health psychologists and other essential posts?

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Sitting date: 2023-07-04