Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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Safe staffing should have been separate. We were told there would be 2,200 additional posts for new measures but now it seems that some of it is safe staffing, so it is actually less than that. It is far less than the number that has been recruited in the past number of years. It is unsatisfactory.