Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

No. I will tell Mr. McCarthy what we are talking about. Let me cite to him figures from a document I have here. It relates to CDNT services in County Wexford. It states that there are two whole-time equivalent physiotherapist, three whole-time equivalent occupational therapist, OT, four speech and language therapists and four whole-time equivalent psychologist vacancies. It states that the services are not fit for purpose. My office has a library and a list the length of my arm of services not being provided, and we are here discussing whether we will be able to cater for 200,000 refugees. I do not understand. The last conversation we had when the Department was before us it almost guaranteed to us that the provision for CDNTs would come within the Department's remit by July of this year. That was when it was supposed to happen.

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