Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed)
Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Dr. Duffy mentioned two words there that I believe hit a bone with every Deputy and Senator, which is "waiting list". Whether it is a waiting list for a psychologist, a psychiatrist, or whatever consultant is required be it speech and language or physiotherapy, the pattern is quite obvious across all of our services.
Mr. Smyth referred to the 66 funded clinical psychology training places. I am aware also that there are a couple of others there. What kinds of figures do we need to be hitting? What is the turnover of graduates that we need to churn out from colleges in the context of training individuals to go into the services?
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