Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive - Review of Allowances

2:30 pm

Mr. Barry O'Brien:

It is an extremely difficult exercise to give accuracy, simply because we would use both agency and overtime to replace people. It could happen that nurse A was replaced by overtime, while nurse B was replaced by an agency. It would be difficult, therefore, to align specifically how much involved overtime.