David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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749. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement that his Department has had with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to progress development of a third level hospital play specialist course, as committed to in the 2004 Ready, Steady, Play: A National Play Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33605/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Officials from my Department engage on an ongoing basis with colleagues in the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and other relevant stakeholders to ensure that we train enough graduates with the skills necessary to support the delivery of health and social care services and to develop a strategic approach to workforce planning for the health sector.

The National Play Policy is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.