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
Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
No matter where in the country, whether in Kilkenny or elsewhere, every hospital is short of personnel, whether it be doctors or otherwise. We are trying to recruit more. That will all cost more money. Doctors and GPs are becoming more scarce around the country. We are trying to attract them but there are parishes which would normally have one, two or three doctors, or a primary care centre that do not have any. How will we pay all these extra staff and live within the budget? How can the HSE marry those two things?
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