Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate
Mr. Ciar?n Devane:
We have said that a large number of roles are exempt from the controls. We have also said that if there is a role that a chief executive in the system thinks is more critical, they can absolutely recruit to that role internally or from across their organisation. As any other organisation would do, it would say that if this is a role it really needs, it would be very happy to move somebody into that role. We think we have exempted the really critical roles, such as consultants, for example. Let us hope we are right. I agree with the Deputy's premise. As we get more mature with the workforce strategy, it would be great to be able to say these are the critical roles, these are the succession plans for those roles, we know we have enough people being trained here who will ultimately be there if we have a vacancy, and we kind of know what we are going to do locally. We have to get to that point. It is entirely fair.
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