Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Matthew Sadlier:

We are not health economists. I want a fully staffed team in my specialty of old age psychiatry in north Dublin. I want my team staffed as per the numbers in A Vision for Change. As to how much that costs and whether the budget has been spent incorrectly, for those of us working on the front line, we do not know. I am not a health economist. I do not know where the €18 billion distils down to.