Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-25
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

That is the objective. It is my view that there should be a separate dedicated workforce for swabbing and contact tracing. That is what the HSE has been undertaking. That means redeployment back to the front line and to key services such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and other services. Those personnel are best deployed in those scenarios to look after people such as the young boy the Deputy mentioned. That is what we are going to do and very significant progress had been made on that. In my view, we should not have therapists doing the contact tracing work. There may be some incidents where someone could be in a managerial role-----

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Sitting date: 2020-11-25