Staff assigned to assist Stardust victims
Quinn asked whether welfare and health staff helping victims had been diverted from other duties; the Minister assumed they had. Quinn then asked that they be replaced or unemployed people hired, but the Chair ended the exchange for lack of time.
I know that the Minister for the Environment is not directly responsible but perhaps he may be able to help me. In reply to a question the Minister said that some staff from the Department of Social Welfare were permanently assigned for the time being to help the victims and relatives of the Stardust tragedy as were some nurses from the EHB. Do I take it that these people have been transferred from other duties or have they been taken on specially to do the job?
Comment on this
I do not have that informatin but I assume that they have been diverted from other duties in the EHB and in the Department of Social Welfare.
