Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates

11:30 am

Photo of John CrownJohn Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

We should not have any requirement or need for locums. We should have a sufficiently well-staffed service to enable cover when a staff member becomes ill or is otherwise incapacitated. It is wrong that we have locums in the first place. It is a Band-aid over the problem of under-staffing.

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