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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is very hard to comprehend a situation where the State is spending €23 billion on the health service and we find ourselves year on year with money allocated for different services and the HSE incapable of recruiting people because there has been little or no forward planning in relation to workforce. It beggars belief that given the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: With due respect Mr. Watt, I am not asking how many have been recruited, I am asking what is the plan for ensuring that there are sufficient numbers of staff available, when the funding is there to recruit them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Mr. Watt has not set out the steps.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: But Mr. Watt caveats that by saying it is not enough. That is the difficulty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Does Mr. Watt know how many places will be needed over the next five or ten years? Is that set out on paper?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is that across all disciplines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What about HSCPs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Have those places been secured?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: For the coming years have places been secured?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Can Ms Kenna provide the documentation to us on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: A plan exists.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Can Mr. Reid provide the numbers to the committee on forward planning for the coming years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What kind of timeline has the HSE done projections for?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Three to five years seems like quite a short timeline. Can Mr. Reid provide just one response about the number of work placements? I might ask my colleagues to reply to that as I am not familiar with the issue that Deputy Shortall has just referenced or perhaps I have just missed it. What specific placements?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: The reduction in the work placements available within the HSE for people who are in training right across the disciplines.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Could I have a note on the placements that have been provided this year, for example?