Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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I wish to offer some information on the issue of staffing levels, which comes up. I have a report from our own CDNT in Tuam. We are at two thirds capacity with our staff. The problem is that we are down four-and-a-half whole time equivalents, WTEs, for speech and language therapists. On the practical side, I met a young speech and language therapist in Dubai at the end of January, when she was on her way to New Zealand. She had worked in the HSE for two and a half years, but it refused to make her permanent. She is over there now. I could do with her in Tuam.