Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. Liam Woods:
We have counted 870. That was 435 last year. The challenge for us, which comes up in the capacity study and in the Deputy's questions, is the retention of graduate nurses. We were quite successful with that last year compared with previous years. Maybe Ms Cowan will say more about that. It is a key target for us again this year. As the Deputy said, having appropriate nursing capacity is a critical requirement.