Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-23
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

I believe the Government is deceiving the public about what is actually happening in the health service. While it claims it is trying to recruit people to the health service to fill the staff shortages to address the ever-growing waiting lists, which have now reached nearly 1 million people in various hospitals, or the 10,000 children waiting for assessments of need, the 110,000 children waiting for therapies or the hundreds of people waiting for hours on trolleys in emergency departments, in actuality it is imposing a recruitment embargo by another name. I refer to the pay and numbers strategy, which is restricting the ability of hospitals and the health services to recruit the people they need. The Government is gaslighting the public about the truth of this.

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Sitting date: 2024-10-23