Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is the same answer we got from Mr. Mulvany in relation to the HSE. I am aware that there are clinical governance issues within certain parts of the service. I do not really want to identify any sector or service but there are certainly clinical governance issues.

In my own CDNT in New Ross, the manager left. Both speech and language therapists are gone. There seems to be a structure in the governance that is not the equivalent across the sectors and the staff are feeling at risk. This was broadcast yesterday on national radio airwaves, how staff in the HSE are feeling very vulnerable, and that instead of staying in the job, they are either going through the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or they are just leaving. Now that is a retention issue without a doubt and I want to see exactly what we are doing to prevent it from happening and how we are supporting the current workforce. Has the €1,000 that was promised to the front-line workers been rolled out to everybody or what is the update on that?