Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 September 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am posing this question to Mr. McCallion regarding how the HSE interacts. We need a full-time dietician to deal with very ill, anorexic patients in CAMHS services in Wexford. It took me a year and a half to get the Minister to appoint a full-time equivalent because the HSE was not able to recruit a half-time equivalent. That happened in July 2022. I now have the same letter telling me that the organisation's internal systems have been exhausted. We are now back to it being said it is not possible for the HSE to find anyone. What is the issue? Other sectors are able to recruit on the basis of critical skills permits. Is this not the position in the HSE?

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