Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

The plan was approved in recent months. The recruitment process for the consultants has started. Perhaps we could look at the language and make it clearer. It has always been clear to everyone in the system that we cannot recruit 51 permanent consultants inside of six months. In fact, it would be a challenge to do it inside of 12 months. The analysis is the analysis. The 51 posts have been approved along with 20 registrars. We managed to get 20 in as locums, which actually is quite an achievement. That is substantial. The balance will be recruited as soon as they can be.

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