Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
9:00 am
Mr. Liam Woods:
Typically not. It depends on the time period, but for example, South Tipperary General Hospital has 11 such doctors. Hospitals may have difficulty recruiting over an extended period, have people who have some competence in the area, and appoint them because they needed to have somebody in place to fill a post.