Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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I can give the witnesses some extra information. The recruitment model of the HSE is not helping. It is not a locally sourced service but it is a national centralised system of recruitment. It would be interesting from the perspective of the Children's Rights Alliance to conduct research into this and bring it back to the table. From my research and from speaking to bodies such as Tusla and others, I know there is no local or regional recruitment drive but only a national campaign and the use of panels. That is why I asked the questions around the community healthcare organisations, CHOs. There has been 114 assistant psychologists put into community health care. I thank the witnesses for their time and I think this is a point they might feed back to the HSE when they speak to it.