Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. The organisations will do so, but what they were saying was they had people in the process of being recruited and they do not think those people are still going to be there. They hope they will, and if they are then the organisations will take them on, but they said people will leave, because they have to. Given the demands of paying for the cost of living and so on, people are going to move on to something else unless they are sure the job is going to come up.

Health and social care professionals were exempted from the recruitment pause, but they cannot be recruited for love nor money anyway. We know that within even the children's disability network teams, CDNTs. I have a question on those teams because 41 of the 91 are HSE-run and I think 24 are section 38 organisations as well. Are they affected in any way by the recruitment pause across any of the grades, including management, administration staff and so on? All the staff are very important.

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