Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Robert Watt:

No, we do not need more expertise. We have the capacity between ourselves and the HSE. We are working on this wider project, which the European Commission is funding, about having a more systematic approach to workforce planning. I believe that we have a reasonably good idea where the needs are, which we have touched on this morning, and where the gaps are, and where we need to increase. Deputy Shortall mentioned the doctors and the pressures across a whole variety of areas. We know where the gaps are. It is a question now of driving the implementation of all the different aspects. I accept what Deputy Cullinane has said about retention, doing better on retention, and doing better with regard to those Irish people who went abroad and getting them back, which we can because there is a pool of those people out there, and to provide more opportunities for our own people to come into-----

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