Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 September 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

It can be across services. In mental health, the greatest proportion, I would expect, are in those hard to recruit to and fill posts, which are often in the acute units or in the more residential care facilities as we rightly attract more and more staff into the community. I am not saying they are easy jobs but that is where our bigger levels of investment are going because that is the policy and is what is right for people. It means we find it increasingly hard to recruit and retain people to work in other units so, as a last resort, we will use agency staff.