Ms Anne O'Connor:

There is a pipeline. Under our recruitment licence, we are tied in to the national recruitment service. The mental health division is part of the HSE and there is a recruitment licence in play. We have to follow certain procedures in regard to how we recruit staff and that takes time. That recruitment process is constantly in being, whether it is to do with new developments in terms of the development funding or just replacement staff. We have a lot of churn in our service because people move around. As we develop new services, people move around.

I have mentioned nurse training. A pipeline for nursing in particular is one initiative.

Our funding is prioritised around key service development. For example, if we have a series of clinical programmes, we look at our population of vulnerable groups and safety. Safety is a key guide for us in terms of our services. The metrics are in our monthly reports. Our performance report is published every month and is visible to everybody in terms of how we are performing against all the metrics. It is transparent and available for anybody to look at every month.