Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If I may, I will go back over this again. There is an urgent need to hire speech and language therapists everywhere, but particularly in certain parts of the country like Cork and Kerry. Is it that the HSE is not trying to hire therapists or that it is not willing to pay them enough? Is it that the HSE in certain areas has a bad reputation as an employer and word has got out among therapists that they should not go to work for the Cork and Kerry community healthcare organisation? Is it that the HSE is not trying to fill the posts or that it is trying to do so but it has a bad reputation in certain areas, or is it that the HSE is not willing to spend enough money? Are these jobs located in a part of the country in which speech and language therapists do not want to work? Why are not enough people being hired to serve these children?