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:

To reassure the Chair at a general level, across all the professions we talk to and with the Department and the policy-makers about the pipeline of health professionals including health and social care professionals. In the interim, we are looking overseas for many professions as part of an international recruitment campaign. Again, we are fishing in a big pool or, rather, it is a much smaller pool.