Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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I want to know if there is such a plan. Perhaps it is a case of rainbows and unicorns, but I would have thought the HSE would have had a funded workforce plan for 2018 in, say, December 2017, yet we are now almost in November 2018. As I understand it, there were discussions with trade unions on a funded workforce plan. Again, I am only observing this and obviously not involved, but the discussions petered out and we still do not have such a plan.