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. Damien McCallion:

That is a challenge and the numbers the Chairman has given for CHO 8 are similar in other CHOs. They might vary a little but broadly speaking we only have two thirds of the resources in place for those teams. A lot of it is the health and social care professional areas, which is the biggest gap. There are a couple of things and we discussed this in the Joint Committee on Health yesterday with the Department as well. At national level there is engagement with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to try to increase the numbers in all those disciplines and to try to improve the numbers coming through.

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