Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals

9:00 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

That was our policy from the start of the year with regard to setting out where we see recruitment coming. We have to put a control on it because, as I mentioned, we are already 1,030 over this year with regard to where we thought we would be. There is no recruitment embargo. I am happy to provide the breakdown of the figure, and what it shows is that most of the positions are front-line facing. We go through them in detail every month ourselves and with the hospital groups. There is no embargo in place at present and our recruitment levels show this. Every month for the first four months, from January through to April, on average almost 400 people were recruited. There is significant recruitment going on.

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