Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital: Discussion

Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

There is a corporate integration project. We are examining all of our corporate functions, for example, finance, HR, ICT, quality and safety. We have a plan to merge existing roles so that we do not have three of everything and instead move to having just one of some types of post. We are moving from smaller organisations to a larger one, so we will still need some posts to take on broader remits, but we are looking at streamlining. That is one of the reasons we sought to be commenced four years out. We wanted to work through a process over the next four years of merging those corporate functions into single functions and considering how to streamline.