Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand the process is under way and that the Minister cannot interfere or give a blow-by-blow account on it but I really want to highlight the pressure on the service users and on the staff due to that widening pay gap between the section 38 and section 39 organisations. It is more difficult to recruit and retain staff. This has a direct knock-on effect to the services being delivered to clients. Many families feel they are getting little or no service. In reality, they are getting none in so many different ways. That gap needs to be filled in order that services are delivered, a speedy and satisfactory resolution, with equality across the section 398 and section 39 organisations, will be delivered and users can expect to get the services they require.

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