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:

We need 2,161 additional staff by 2028. That is what the capacity review is telling us. That also includes a number of new service developments that will be focused on preventing many patients from needing to go to hospital, particularly older, frail patients. We are developing a lot of services to treat patients at home and some of those have been mentioned-----