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:

The Deputy makes a very real point. We have inconsistencies across our CHO areas in resourcing, communications and culture. We have to make real difference in changes. I personally have acknowledged that with the team to the Minister. We have to make a cultural difference. That is the challenge the whole system is working on daily. It is a very challenging environment and I want to show my support for staff who do work in the area because we want to retain them and we want to secure more people in. Like many aspects of our service, however, we have real cultural issues that we have to change in communications and patient experience and then going back.