Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
The recruitment pipeline shows us that 3,300 is a doable number in terms of graduates and people returning. There is always the balancing factor as people leave and people retire but this would be net. In the past, we stood rightly accused of saying we were going to add 10,000, 12,000 or 14,000 people to the workforce and the supply does not stand up to that. I think the 3,300 will do it. The fact that they are not coming prescribed by discipline is very helpful because it means some regions will be able to focus on allied health professionals if that is what they need and others will focus on nursing, midwifery and so on. There will be------
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