Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Children and Youth Affairs: Discussion

9:55 am

Photo of Caoimhghín Ó CaoláinCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will conclude with these last couple of points. Can the Minister comment on the relationship between management and staff now at the Oberstown campus? There have unquestionably been stresses and strains. Can she indicate what efforts are being employed to improve this and whether she is confident that whatever historical strains are in the past where they must be left? Regarding recruitment for Oberstown and the intended potential of the new campus there, is the process under way for the recruitment of additional staff that the Minister highlighted in response to a parliamentary question I put to her just over a month ago?

In association with all of that, is the Minister aware that a Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, report on one of the high support units in this country in my constituency, as is sadly the case with many other HIQA reports, has been used to apply a mallet rather than the necessary reforms, and that this high support unit will be closed on the turn of this month?

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