Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Robert Watt:

Not necessarily, because some of the overtime and the agency staff might make up for gaps that are due to the fact we have not been able to recruit. It does not correspond across exactly. Moreover, some of that spend in the main budget of the HSE too is Covid related because in the early part of the year, when Covid was significantly impacting on the hospitals, that led to a lot of employees being out sick and needing to be covered. It would not directly correspond. There would probably still be an overrun, but not to the extent that would exactly match the underspend arising from the staff costs.

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