Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE
Mr. Damien McCallion:
It varies. We talked about the emergency department consultant posts and the fact we have had good interest from a locum perspective for the winter. This is positive, because if we just looked to fill a locum post on its own and did not have a permanent post for someone, it would not be an attractive enough career move for someone to come back for. There will be challenges with some of the other posts such as certain nursing posts and some of the therapy posts. The sites were asked to try to make sure they had a good chance of filling these posts as part of the winter submission, and Dr. O'Connor may want to talk to that. We are positive overall. You will never get all of those posts filled, just to be clear. There are going to be challenges, which the Deputy referred to, but we asked the officials at the sites to try to recruit for posts they felt they had the best chance of filling this winter, either in quarter four or quarter one.
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