An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2023-07-11
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Pauline Tully (SF), Cavan-Monaghan

I want to raise concern about the service provided by the Irish Wheelchair Association in Cavan to disabled people and wheelchair users. The service has been curtailed since the Covid pandemic due to difficulty with recruitment and retention of staff and is in danger of closing. It recruits staff, trains them for six months and then they leave to go to the HSE or section 38 organisations. When will the Government address the pay parity issue regarding section 39 organisations? If this is not done, they will continue to haemorrhage staff to section 38 organisations and the HSE. It particularly affects disability services and children's disability network teams, CDNTs.

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Sitting date: 2023-07-11