Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
I am not going to say that this does not happen. What I am saying is that last May, the Minister confirmed the completion of the safe staffing framework in the medical surgical wards and the emergency departments, which was about 800 posts between nursing and healthcare assistants, half to be achieved through employment and half to be achieved through agency conversion. In the profile I have of the approved additional jobs for next year, the completion of that framework through the conversion is included in that. Giving the safe staffing level first and then the appropriate deployment of that constitute the two answers to the point made by the Deputy.
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