Ms Mary Doran:

The current filled workforce for CDNTs in Meath is 89 WTE posts. There are 23 vacancies. That is to the funded level.

On therapy assistants, it is absolutely in our programme of work to work with the ETBs to ensure there is a pipeline of people coming into those therapy assistant roles. Last year, the HSE established the role of therapy assistant and made the qualifications and eligibility criteria as broad as possible in order to have the broadest pipeline coming in.