Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I do not have the specifics on that. I will bring it back to the Minister to follow up on that as well. I indicated in my initial contribution that mandatory training was part of what was required in the HSE. I have an additional interest here. I am responsible for the national action plan against racism, so I will be delving into that a little bit further to see how thorough that is and to see who is captured by that mandatory training because it is not always everyone who does it. One of the weaknesses of the training that is provided or at least offered across different Government Departments, and I have been asking about this as well, is that generally it tends to be optional. What we find is that the people who are most interested in doing the job right and are more open-----

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