Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion

9:00 am

Professor Frank Murray:

We should anticipate people retiring, facilitate their early retirement if they so wish, and anticipate and set up that process of recruitment, which does take a time to do. There is a process that has to be gone through. Once a job is advertised and a competition held, the person who has succeeded is declared, and that part alone often takes six to 12 months, leaving aside the planning component.