854. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ten audiology graduates are now being told that their jobs are possibly going to be pulled and they are to pay back €20,000 each; if he is further aware that these ten persons were sent to train in the UK to gain the expertise required for senior positions and yet the Health Service Executive is attempting to hire them at a basic level; the reason the HSE is putting out tenders to private companies for large sums of money to get the waiting lists down when there are ten highly qualified persons waiting to be taken on; the reason the ten graduates are being discriminated against when applying for locum work when they are trained in Ireland, yet the HSE is recruiting and paying persons from outside the country at a much higher rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19300/14]

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854. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ten audiology graduates are now being told that their jobs are possibly going to be pulled and they are to pay back €20,000 each; if he is further aware that these ten persons were sent to train in the UK to gain the expertise required for senior positions and yet the Health Service Executive is attempting to hire them at a basic level; the reason the HSE is putting out tenders to private companies for large sums of money to get the waiting lists down when there are ten highly qualified persons waiting to be taken on; the reason the ten graduates are being discriminated against when applying for locum work when they are trained in Ireland, yet the HSE is recruiting and paying persons from outside the country at a much higher rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19300/14]

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1. 30 April 2014

   Audiology Services Provision

   854. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ten audiology graduates are now being told that their jobs are possibly going to be pulled and they are to pay back €20,000 each; if he is further aware that these ten persons were sent to train in the UK to gain the expertise required for senior positions and yet the Health Service Executive is attempting to hire them at a basic level; the reason the HSE is putting out tenders to private companies for large sums of money to get the waiting lists down when there are ten highly qualified persons waiting to be taken on; the reason the ten graduates are being discriminated against when applying for locum work when they are trained in Ireland, yet the HSE is recruiting and paying persons from outside the country at a much higher rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19300/14]

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