Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 May 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

We do not see them as that. We see them as real commitments relating to funding and resourcing that we want to live up to. I addressed the issue of 5,500 or 10,000. Since January 2020, the staffing level in the HSE has increased by 14,700 to 134,500. That is a 12.3% increase.