Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

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

9:30 am

Mr. Damien McCallion:

We plan to have over 300 ICU beds by the end of the year. A key point about ICU beds is their very high staffing requirement and the very high skills requirement, alongside the physical requirements. Tallaght opened recently and other centres are being opened but staffing is crucial to that, in terms of training people. In parallel with the infrastructure and the capital, there is also work on the staffing side but we aim to be over 300 soon. We will definitely be over 300 by the end of year.

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