Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

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

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Morton:

The workforce plan that was shared in June outlines the need for standstill recruitment but also new development recruitment. The capacity review highlighted the fact that we have a huge capacity gap but we already knew that. Indeed, that is on the record of this committee from September last year. Colleagues discussed that at committee at the end of September 2021. Essentially, the capacity plan is telling us that from a core ambulance perspective we need 2,161 additional staff by 2028. Ideally, we-----