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.