Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate

Mr. Ciar?n Devane:

Yes, it is. It all ties together. How we manage our overall numbers will depend upon the pay and numbers strategy. It ties into agencies and agency conversion into full-time jobs. We will continue to have agency staff, no doubt, but not at the same level. It also ties into what we are allowed to recruit and where, having agreed to clarity on that in terms of the development. We are getting on with doing the development. It is not a moratorium in the total sense. There are, in health, the 2,200 additional jobs. It is around saying we need clarity we can performance-manage to. It does not absolve us from doing performance management today as well and holding the REOs in particular accountable for those numbers.

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