Written answers

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Department of Health

Mental Health Services

Photo of Holly CairnsHolly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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233. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 842 of 5 April and 308 of 18 May 2022, the percentage of appointments to senior psychologist posts in the adult mental health services in CHO4 between August 2017 and January 2021 that took place via unadvertised transfers; the details of each of those appointments by unadvertised transfer, that is, the exact service locations and the date of the appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33188/22]

Photo of Mary ButlerMary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Photo of Holly CairnsHolly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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234. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 1 March, 840 of 5 April and 308 of 18 May 2022, the way that fairness and transparency could be attributed to a process of expressions of interest in appointments by transfer of mental health psychologists in CHO4 which were not made known to all candidates through annual personal development plan meetings or by any other formal means and where these opportunities were therefore made known and offered to some psychologists but not others who were equally eligible; his views on the fact that these public appointments took place in a manner that was not covered by HR policy and circumvented relevant national recruitment panels and therefore imposed disadvantage on candidates ranked on those recruitment panels who would have expressed an interest in the posts in question. [33189/22]

Photo of Mary ButlerMary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

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