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

The date for the publication of the 2023 staff census will be in the next two weeks. While I do not have a specific figure for Cavan and Monaghan, I know that for CHO 1, which covers the Cavan and Monaghan areas, there were 88 people who expressed interest.

As to what measures are being taken, the national team development of the programme is holding lunchtime webinars. There are confined senior-grade competitions going on. It is marketing the CDNT as a workplace of choice. There are human resources engagements with graduates, in person and via webinars, as well as recordings of CDNT staff and parents around the benefits of working with it. There are also student sponsorship programmes, an additional 20 senior clinical psychologist training placements, confined senior-grade competitions and a recruitment plan for 462 health and social care workers by the end of 2024. The HSE has set its own target it wishes to achieve in the health and social care profession, which is 462 this year.

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