Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Ms Yvonne O'Neill:

I agree that one of the things that hampers that happening as effectively as it should is the available resources. In the roadmap my colleague referred to earlier, there is also a move to being able to quantify the proportion of time that is spent with intervention rather than assessment, which is very important. Looking at our overall numbers, we are at two thirds of the number of posts filled, just to be positive, and the level of service that is being provided by those staff is phenomenal. We want to have a very clear roadmap for disability services and what people can experience in that service, as a family or a young person, but also for the staff to continue to make working in disability services attractive. We all have a responsibility in that regard.

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