Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists newly recruited to date in 2016; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care, acute and disability services; the full year cost of their recruitment; and the net increase in speech and language therapists numbers resulting from this recruitment. [34333/16]

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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262. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists currently employed in each CHO in tabular form; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2014 and 2015. [34336/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 259 and 262 together.

I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter.