Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (Resumed)

Photo of Anne RabbitteAnne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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The Senator is clearly seeing the service and operational issue there and it is not unique, to be perfectly honest. That is why one needs to go back to the HSE because that funding support mechanism is hard-fought and hard-got. The family is very clear on what level of service delivery they expect. If service providers are not stepping up to the mark where they have made a contract - much of this is on a tendering basis - and if these providers are failing on their tendering, it is very important that it needs to be called out.