Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
This may well appear unfair to some of my own people but I am going to say it anyway. We have exponentially increased the number of therapists working for us. They are all professionally trained and after a certain period of time, they have the capability to supervise a student. I do not see as big an obstacle to them taking students as they might see. The infrastructure some professions require to take students, quite frankly, is not only not necessary but inappropriate to block people. We will make it very clear that the provision of clinical placements will become a compliance requirement of the workforce each region has.
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