Declan Breathnach (Louth, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I refer to the issue of employment and our current workforce. We have regular announcements about providing services for mental health or issues that are important to us all. In terms of the skills that are required, whether in mental health, dementia or elsewhere, do we take into account our ability to actually employ those people when we allocate money to the services? We are codding the people if we make announcements but are not able to fill the posts. That has been a regular occurrence since I was elected to the Dáil. We are not capable of filling the posts.