Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 October 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive
9:30 am
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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Mr. Gloster stated that he had a staff of approximately 166,000. There is considerable frustration about agency spend in general, particularly given that there are many people who want to get good jobs in the HSE. This expenditure on agency and management and administration basically represents a trebling of the previous amount. Why has it increased to this level in such a short period?