Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health

9:00 am

Mr. John Connaghan:

May I add one comment? The biggest slice of cost in agency and locum is on the medical side. It should be remembered that we are in an international recruitment market in many ways so we are not fishing just in the pool of Ireland. There is inevitably going to be some delay in terms of our ability to recruit into certain specialist posts. That drives some locums and additional agency posts.

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