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:

I accept that any service with no cover is unacceptable, but perhaps what the Deputy wants to hear from me is what we are doing about it and what the action plan is, so I will give him a couple of bullet points on that. What I am going to give him here is not new because we have been aware that there have been issues since at least October 2017 and I think much earlier in terms of the provision of the service. First, we have a national and international search and recruitment under way to fill these posts. Tomorrow will be an important date for that because we have a teleconference with a number of interested candidates from the UK. This is new news. We think we might be able to get at least two of those to come on board very quickly.

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