Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

The agency staff whom we approve for use are through a procurement framework of a number of agency firms specialising in healthcare assistants, multi-task attendants, nurses and doctors but when an area cannot get someone in the framework, it will go off the framework and then many smaller agencies are involved. I do not approve of it.