Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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I said I would put a question to Mr. Gloster in the final part. We are all aware of the issue with the CDNTs and primary care and what positions remain unfilled. With the best will in the world, even if we got workforce planning correct in the morning, we would not have the right number of psychologists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and whatever else. How do we plan for the numbers we have while trying to increase the other numbers to fill those positions? How do we provide the best bang for buck on the basis of unfilled space? That is using the private sector, technical fixes and whatever can be done. We all know that the earlier the intervention, the less is the need for more costly or nuclear options being required later.