Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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273. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists hired from each university by the HSE in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of graduates in each year per institution in tabular form; and his views on whether the number of occupational therapists in the HSE is appropriate. [22863/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The number of occupational therapists hired from each university as raised by the Deputy is more appropriate to my colleague at the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Deputy may wish to refer his queries there.

With regard to the number of occupational therapists in the HSE, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.