Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are full and very willing participants in that process. In fairness to the Minister of State, she has turbocharged this since coming into office. There are other areas but disability is a good example of where there is a need to join up the public service need with the number of training places. Sláintecare, and health more broadly, is another example. If we want to deliver on Sláintecare targets, we will need to dramatically grow the healthcare workforce. In order to do that, more people will need to be trained. We are therefore involved in these discussions. Those discussions need to be led by their parent Departments to an extent. Departments must tell us what they need from our sector and then I have a responsibility to deliver those places. The work we are doing with disability is a good example of that.