Ms Mary Doran:

On recruitment for CDNTs, we have improved since October 2021. There were 1,500 members of staff in CDNTs then and more than 2,000 members of staff now. Within Cork, 275 posts have been filled and there is a 10% vacancy rate on top of that. Those are the unfilled posts.

The barriers mainly relate to the pipeline coming in and the perception of working in the disability sector. A number of our initiatives in the past year have borne fruit with regard to increasing the workforce.