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

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

I will deal with the funding question and agency spend. Typically, as we try to move services into the community we often recruit our own staff from some of the more challenging residential services but end up having to backfill those with agency staff and overtime. In 2021, the cost of agency staff was €73 million of which the biggest single chunk was medical and that equates to about 800 staff equivalents. Approximately €33 million was spent on overtime, which equates to about 400 staff equivalents.

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