Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
I agree, and with the needs of the population, both are probably necessary. They are doing good endoscopies, they are doing good cataract operations, the State is buying those services and that suits the State to do that, but the Deputy is absolutely right in relation to the staffing. Mullingar has a particular tension in relation to the scale of agency. I think it is 40% at the moment. There is an excellent new manager there who is doing extremely good work and I know she is trying to resolve that as well as the IHA managers.
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