Question from Deputy Conor McGuinness - PQ 18244-26

To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is obliged, under existing legislation, policy, service level agreements, or national guidelines, to provide funding to agency care companies to ensure that agency care workers receive appropriate medication handling and administration training in order to organise and administer daily medication for clients who are medically competent to make decisions regarding their own medication but are physically unable to manage it themselves; noting that medication handling and administration training is available through HSELand; if she will clarify whether the availability of such training on HSELand satisfies the HSE's obligations in circumstances where agency staff require funded training time and accreditation; and if she will make a statement on the matter.