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:

I will call on the national HR director, who is actively involved in all of this and recruitment. Just to make a couple of points on strategic recruitment and to reassure the Deputy, as he asked us, that we are very much looking at our recruitment. Our figure of 5,500 for this year has put a particular focus on community resourcing and trying to get that shift into community resourcing. We have our annual staff survey that picks up a lot of the issues we might pick up in exit surveys. I will ask our HR director to make a comment on how we are trying to track some of these issues.