Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

Photo of Michael HartyMichael Harty (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The committee has been doing substantial work on workforce planning, recruitment and retention of staff. If a satellite centre cannot be staffed, how will the hospital itself be staffed when it is commissioned? This committee can see significant difficulties in recruiting consultants. Dr. Curtis mentioned two specialties. It is a failure of the process that the centre cannot open from 9 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week, as planned. That is surely a significant disappointment.

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