Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 April 2021

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised)

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The short answer is "Yes". A new team called the workforce planning unit was set up last year and those are exactly the issues at which it is looking.

As the Deputy knows, Laura Magahy leads the Sláintecare team. One of the things they are doing is the area-based analysis to see how many of each specialty we need in all of the areas, which will give us the gap and will allow us to hire in. At the same time, the whole pipeline coming in is being looked at in regard to different nursing specialties, different medical specialties, different health and social care specialties, how many of these people we need, how many training places there are, how many we can retain here and so forth.

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