Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013
10:00 am
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
It was due to a combination of factors, largely related to maintaining services, challenges around the market and the ability to get staff, which is particularly relevant with medical staff, and a moratorium whereby we have a requirement to maintain an essential service but are not allowed to recruit directly. While overall pay decreased, agency costs increased, and they increased again in 2014. They have stabilised somewhat but have not yet started to decrease significantly.
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