Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

I can safely say that across all of our staffing teams, we are continuously trying to field deficits. I gave some figures earlier on a national basis, showing recruitment numbers of 12,500 over the past two years. We still have challenges, particularly in terms of mental health. We are trying to strengthen the pipeline in terms of training. We are trying to target specific areas and Wexford may be one of them. We have some real challenges in some areas and some parts of the country in recruiting specialists. That continues to be a real challenge for us.

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