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

It is important to begin by saying disabilities never had an embargo on recruiting OTs, physios, speech and language or for any form of therapy. Funding going from the Department to the HSE will be centrally allocated to each of the RHOs, which have sole responsibility for apportioning it according to the needs within their structure. If interviews have been done, I have no doubt the allocation of those jobs is under way as we speak.

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