Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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854. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ten audiology graduates are now being told that their jobs are possibly going to be pulled and they are to pay back €20,000 each; if he is further aware that these ten persons were sent to train in the UK to gain the expertise required for senior positions and yet the Health Service Executive is attempting to hire them at a basic level; the reason the HSE is putting out tenders to private companies for large sums of money to get the waiting lists down when there are 10 highly qualified persons waiting to be taken on; the reason the ten graduates are being discriminated against when applying for locum work when they are trained in Ireland, yet the HSE are recruiting and paying persons from outside the country at a much higher rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19300/14]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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As this is an operational matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.