Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting

9:30 am

Mr. David Walsh:

As the CEO said, we are prioritising disability posts. We have signed off on several hundred vacancies within the CDNTs over the past couple of months. We have a specific targeted approach to recruitment. There probably are not as many opportunities, in the context of other aspects of services, for those professionals, whether they are occupational therapists or-----