Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive
Mr. Paul Reid:
Can I just add one piece to that? On the wider point of the pandemic and recruitment, the Senator is correct. We made a good case to the Government through the Department on resourcing. In the year to the end of 2020, our total resourcing was up by 7,500. This includes doctors, consultants, nurses and medics. This is a very significant increase in resourcing which will carry forward into this year. This year's budget facilitates an incremental increase in resourcing, based on last year, of 16,500 for the year. That is a process we are working through in terms of recruitment across various channels. There are very targeted recruitment campaigns being conducted across all of our medical professional workforce.
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