Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Committee on Disability Matters
Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
That is their estimation. We have been looking at recruitment and retention issues, putting more therapists through our third level institutions, looking at therapy assistance and putting therapists into our special schools. We also have looked at recruitment drives, both domestically and internationally. Some Departments ask for assessments of need, indirectly or not, and drive that demand where there are people who potentially are on that list who do not need it to access the services.
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