Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will return to the issue of how the teams are run. I cannot remember who said this during Deputy Shortall's session. One of the phrases used was the consultant is the de facto team leader but various specialists and disciplines are line-managed by discipline. The social worker reports to the social work team and the occupational therapist, OT, reports to that team. When it comes to an individual patient, can we be clear that all those disciplines report to the consultant in question first and, in this case, the concern is around the consultant role? It was not OT or social work that was the issue.