Covid-19 Pandemic
Dail Éireann — 2020-12-10
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Éamon Ó Cuív (FF), Galway West

Can the Minister say how many redeployed people, and particularly non-administrative staff, are engaged in testing, not in complex tracing? How many are involved in the routine tracing that was being done, for example, by Army personnel and so forth and, therefore, can be done by competent people who are not necessarily required to have a medical background? I understand the people who carry out the test do not need that background either. It appears the HSE has a total inability to recruit speedily. It is difficult to understand how it took so long to replace necessary HSE staff with people recruited for this purpose. Can the Minister explain how long it takes the HSE to make an appointment from the day it receives an application for a job? What are the processes that take such a long time for such a clearly defined purpose?

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Sitting date: 2020-12-10