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

I certainly will look at that CDNT in Carlow the Deputy identified with one room being used. I have to question how many staff are on that team and how it is being operationalised. I will go back again to what we set up within the Department since I transferred over. We have put a specific workforce planning group in place in the Department where we are looking at all available options and not reinventing too many of the wheels. I see that Ms Edel Quinn in CHO 1 has a complete campaign around coming home for Christmas. That is a really positive campaign she is running in Donegal. We are also looking at how we can entice and attract people who are coming home for Christmas nationally and at how the HSE is advertising. We do not have an embargo and that is one thing that the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman and I ensured we would not have. We do not have an embargo on recruitment. There is a risk assessment for management and admin but there is no recruitment embargo on any of the clinical posts we will be recruiting for.

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