Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I reassure the Deputy that, as David Walsh said, this should ideally encompass residential, respite, personal assistance day services and CDNTs. He also said it would be limited to roles to which he referred. The entire disability service, be it respite, residential, personal assistance day services or CDNTs, the HSE and section 38 and section 39 organisations will continue to recruit. This is a real recognition that disability services need to recruit. There are hundreds of posts unfilled that I hope we will be able to attract staff to in order to reduce the deficit. I acknowledge that there is a serious deficit in our CDNTs. That is why, as a matter of priority, could not have a pause in this regard.

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