Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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There are 836 funded vacancies, so the money is there. I would rather the HSE got 200 of them than two. I would rather that it got 40 of them than four. However, in any process, there has to be a target and an outcome. I recognise that it is probably unrealistic to hire 836 people next year. However, I would like to know what the management target is. If the HSE does recruitment and has its own paid HR functions, they can surely set a target for what they think they can deliver. If there are international recruitment consultants involved on the other side, they can surely set a target. There must be a target. This is a management process as much as anything else. What is the realistic target?