Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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One issue that we have discovered is that people qualifying out of college need to ensure for their CORU registration, until they get comfortable and have enough experience, that they have clinical oversight. That was significant when progressing disability services was first rolled out. There were not enough senior clinical governance posts. Different disciplines did not have clinical governance. That was a significant issue, which we are addressing at the moment. The clinical governance issue is being addressed. We are recruiting for it. The HSE is working with clinicians who would provide that. That would mean that junior staff coming on stream have the supervision and confidence that their CORU registration would at no time be impacted. In the same way, when the HSE is looking to expand the model into therapist assistant roles, who does the risk for clinical governance sit with? We have often heard about holding the risk. The risk will perhaps sit with the CDNT manager for therapist assistants. On the pay parity conversation, the talks finished last October. Some 500 out of the 1,100 have filled out the KOSI application. I know the employers and unions will be back with the WRC either on Monday or Tuesday next week to look at the next round of pay negotiations for section 39 organisations.