‘Gaping holes’ in child disability services leaving vulnerable children at risk, committee hears

Bernard O’Regan, head of operations at the HSE, said the proportion of vacancies varied across services such as speech and language therapy (36 per cent vacancy rate), occupational therapy (40 per cent), psychology (39 per cent) physiotherapy (38 per cent), social work (28 per cent), nursing (29 per cent) and administration (9 per cent).