Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Damian Ginley:

From a SIPTU perspective, we have carried out a consultation process with our membership, and the feedback is that where there are significant deficits being identified in either a grade or an individual location, that is, a hospital, our members will be pursuing courses of action in that context. The one frustration we touched on earlier is that across all grades and parts of health, there is a growing frustration among the workforce with regard to the blunt instrument of the embargo and pay and numbers strategy, and the impact that is having on workers in their local hospital, ward or community setting. That frustration is growing.