Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

We dealt with this earlier in response to another question. It is a sequencing issue. I would hope and expect that the four teams we have referred to already will be well up and running this year, subject to the availability of staff to populate them. I am very familiar with the team of 5.6 whole-time equivalents in CHO 3. I started it there many years ago, ahead of the community team strategy that we are now pursuing. The strategy we are now pursuing is the right way to go. I would hope that the 2025 Estimates will provide for the six regions of the country to have their full teams. I refer to our six new regions. CHO 3, as Deputy Crowe would know, is the mid-west region, so that team would get finished out. I am not going to be a hostage to fortune because I cannot promise what the 2025 new developments will be.

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