Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed)
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
That is a fair question. The second point I would make is, yes, we would all prefer if there were no vacancies. The HSE and the Government ultimately overestimated how many people could be hired into the service this year. Clearly that is the case. Since Covid started 16,000 more healthcare professionals work in the HSE and that has never happened before.
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