Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive

Mr. Bernard O'Regan:

There are ongoing engagements between HSE HR and CORU at the moment. A group is developing a proposal process for how we deal with supervised placements for staff coming in to help to meet the requirements of CORU. That will require us to have established capacity to ensure we have placements that can be properly supervised to meet the requirements of CORU. One of the challenges in children's disability services is that due to the low levels of staffing within some teams, they are, perversely, not in a position to supervise students because they do not have the bandwidth. We need to use the better resourced teams to build that capacity and also provide some external support into teams so that-----