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
Ms Anne Marie Hoey:
I agree. There are a number of things to mention there. On our retention strategies, as I mentioned, we have 42,000 whole-time equivalent nurses but many more in terms of actual employees. We are very keen to offer flexible working, to the point the Deputy made about working hours that suit individual. We have been very keen to that fact over the past couple of years. At the moment, over 30% of our workforce have part-time or flexible working hours to meet their needs at certain times during their career when that is appropriate.
We do offer those strategies and initiatives in an effort to retain and grow our workforce.