Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

HSE Winter Plan: HSE

Mr. Paul Reid:

To update on recruitment numbers, there are two aspects, namely, swabbers and contract tracers. There will be close to 350 swabbers this week, and we are at about 470 fully resourced contract tracers. There are many more than that from other parts of the workforce. The recruitment process is through a recruitment company. People primarily have contracts for 12 months. They are on similar terms and conditions to those in related grades in the health service. We are resourcing on the basis of seeing how we manage through the pandemic, as different volumes emerge. If a vaccine emerges things can change. I cannot give the commercial terms with the recruitment company but it would have been on a draw down basis for the procurement of contracts. I am happy to give the Deputy a note on that setting out more detail.

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