Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

What I would say is this. In 2023, 8,000 net extra people were recruited to the Irish health service over the course of the year and they were there on 31 December, so whatever vacancies were there were well mitigated in that context. That is the point.