Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 September 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016

9:00 am

Mr. Phelim Quinn:

To say that we can is maybe wrong. It is rather that we do. It is usually where we believe that the function is critical and we have a legal remit or a business or corporate objective that we must meet. It would be on that basis. In every case, we would look at the rationale for employing an agency person. As I also pointed out earlier, when it comes to things like inspection staff, we would and could never employ agency staff because the amount of time for preparation of an inspector to go out into the field is such that we just have to run with that vacancy. An inspector would never be employed on an agency basis.

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