Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE

1:30 pm

Ms Anne O'Connor:

We have considered this in respect of the nurses we have. That is the number of people on panels. They are not necessarily looking for a specific job in CAMHS and are not all able to move. There is a geographical issue, for example, we generally find that we have nurses on panels outside Dublin and our vacancies are in Dublin. We have to have a geographical match between where nurses are on panels and where the vacancies are. Generally speaking, when it comes to mental health nursing we have vacancies in the east and we have staff in the west and the south. It is often the reverse for medics.

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