Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Senator for his questions. I will make inquiries about the pandemic recognition payments to which he referred. The vast majority of payments have now been made but there is an outstanding number of section 39 organisations and private providers for which the moneys still need to be processed and paid to staff. I assume the Senator refers to residential services rather than day services. Staff in the latter are not included in the recognition payment.

On the Senator's second question, all I can say is that we have two of the management team here and I think they are exceptionally talented and hard-working individuals. They will no doubt be blushing at such praise. We have a serious team of people in place in the HSE. I have been very impressed with Bernard Gloster.