Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. Dean Sullivan:
There was a couple of questions for us. I will ask Mr. McGrane to address the issue of the anomaly scans and the associated governance arrangements.
On the consultant recruitment issue, which the Senator is raising again, I can see he did the mental arithmetic. There is a workforce of 3,000 and one can see the estimate of 59 looks low given the average career span of a consultant. I will certainly follow that up with colleagues after today. What I would say, however, is that there will not be an exact science whereby X divided by Y equals Z; it will be a question of considering individual consultants who are coming to the end of their working lives.