To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 322 of 10 November 2022 and 574 of 6 December 2022, the service developments that took place between 8 June and 15 June 2017 (such that a permanent contract senior psychologist post in the North Cork / North Lee Older Adult Mental Health Services was, after being accepted on those advertised terms, changed within that seven day period to a permanent contract senior psychologist post in the general Adult Mental Health North Lee Services, and was not advertised to eligible candidates on those changed terms; the basis in employment law that such a rapid restructuring of a HSE post can be sanctioned after it had been advertised and accepted on different terms; and to ask why the information sought has not been released in response to a previous Parliamentary Question given that it relates not solely to a single employment law case but to service issues that were relevant to many candidates placed on a national recruitment panel who were eligible to express an interest in the post in question and therefore is information that should be transparent, and given that almost four years elapsed before the next permanent contract senior psychologist post was advertised in the Cork Adult Mental Health Services); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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