Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE
3:00 pm
Mr. Liam Woods:
We flagged in our opening statement that we have approval on resource to recruit 40 sonographers. We have addressed the point about training existing staff in the event that we cannot recruit. The recruitment will take place during the course of next year. I will ask Mr. McGrane to say more about this because the funding is conditional on the approval of the 2018 service plan, which is going through a process at present. That funding will become available and the process of recruitment will commence next year. We have also flagged that training is ongoing in any event. I will ask Mr. McGrane to say a little more about this.
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