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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Would they cover the likes of, say, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists or psychiatrists?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: This is just what is happening on the ground, and that is why I am asking Mr. Gloster the question. There is a 12-year-old Down's syndrome girl and her parents had approached the services for speech and language therapy and were told there was one part-time speech and language therapist for the area - this was in Louth - and there were 700 people waiting. Can Mr. Gloster explain to me what...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: What does Mr. Gloster think is the block? People entered into that profession, obviously had a grá for it and wanted to do it, so why now do they not want to work within the HSE disability service? Why does Mr. Gloster think that is-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: What does that mean?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Yes. I am curious as to what it is. If one goes to any other European country, and I have family and friends living right across Europe, those services take a preventative approach. They are really progressive and well-run health services. One never hears of shortages such as we have here. Is this the nightmare that is the HSE and all that goes with it? Is it what stops graduates...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Such as?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Excuse my ignorance, but what is a properly resourced plan?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Walsh is saying that they are not there yet. The HSE has a roadmap.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Will Mr. Walsh give us an inclination of what the roadmap would include to make those posts attractive? How will the HSE encourage graduates who clearly want to work in the field - or they would not have studied the field in first instance - into what they would see as the last place they would want to work?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Walsh has not told me how the HSE is making the posts more attractive yet and there are three minutes left on the clock.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: That is only being done now. For many years, parents have been brought to tears in respect of disability services and the lack of access to them. These are early intervention services; they are seen as critical and crucial. Now we have a roadmap that is literally just talk.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Gloster referred to the disability service being exceptionally pressured. This is the actual reason. I have made inquiries about this in other European countries. There is not the shortfall in recruitment there. People are there who are needed in those services. The fact that, as Mr. Gloster said, the service is exceptionally pressured is key. It has been so run down people would...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: How long does it take to process applications? I have heard that it takes forever in the HSE between the time somebody applies for a job and when they are offered the post. Earlier, there was reference to posts that were approved last year coming on stream. From the time a person applies for a job, how long is it before they are offered that job and start working?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Jesus. Six months.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: That would be for one sector but what of the majority of people that are not in that category?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: That is exceptionally long too. If a person goes for a job in any other sector they ask how much notice must the interviewee give. If the person says it is two weeks they say "Oh brilliant, start then in a fortnight".

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: No, but other professions have managed to go through the vetting process and that. It is public knowledge - and I am not saying this to be insulting - that the recruitment process for applying for a job in the HSE takes forever.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: The HSE, as the service provider, is the last place, not the disability area. They have trained and qualified in the field. They clearly want to work within that field, but the HSE is a no-no for them. Can Mr. Walsh give me a concrete answer to my question? Something more concrete than a roadmap.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: The saga of the driving test centre in Drogheda has been going on for nearly six years. At this stage, it is frankly ridiculous. I raised the matter with the Taoiseach last year. The Road Safety Authority, RSA, has been promising a centre for years. Fourteen sites were identified. The RSA rejected some without even giving a reason and rejected others on the basis that there was too much...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (7 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of people on the waiting list in each NCT test centre in the state; if he will provide additional details on waiting times in those centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5141/24]