Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I will give Dr. Molloy the figures for the community. There is a 27.7% increase in HSE staff since December 2014. The increase in public health nurses is 4.05%. It has gone from 1,480 to 1,543, an increase of 60. The figure for home help has gone down from 3,703 in 2014 to 3,552 in 2021. If we are focusing on community care, we must have the staff and that does not appear to be happening.
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