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:

The challenge for us is that we do not have enough people coming through every year when it comes to the demands for children's disability network, CAMHS, primary care and other areas. In addition to trying to increase the numbers coming through the education system, which will take time, we are also undertaking international recruitment and we are trying to look at other models for how we might increase the numbers. We are challenged in that area. We have a strategic workforce unit within our area looking at this to try to project the numbers over the next five to ten years and we are working with the Department.

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