Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 41 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 5 - Management of Government Grants
Chapter 6 - Payroll Accrual for National Accounts
Chapter 7 - National Lottery Fund
10:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
I do not think there is a generalised problem around recruitment. When we have had recruitment campaigns to recruit teachers, gardaí or civil servants, we have had plenty of applicants so I do not think there is a generalised issue.
There was much misinformation about this within the medical sector. The Deputy might have seen some of the reports last week about the difficulty of retaining staff and the number of staff who want to leave. Those numbers were all nonsense and the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, has come out recently and corrected that and explained the actual position.