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THE HSE WILL issue a report in a number of days on State-funded voluntary hospitals and health agencies that are in breach of rules on payments to their executives.
The Minister for Health James Reilly said this evening that a “clear picture of all payments is needed”, after it emerged that senior staff were being given top-ups on their annual salaries from additional sources, including income from hospital shops and car parks.
The deadline for hospitals to respond to a HSE request for details on their compliance with pay rules was 6pm this evening.
The HSE will consider their responses before issuing a detailed report to the Department of Health in a “couple of days” according to Reilly. This report will be published on the department’s website he pledged.
Echoing An Taoiseach’s words from earlier in the day, Reilly said that the issue of non-exchequer payments to hospital bosses was revealed in May of this year when one employee of Tallaght Hospital was found to have received an extra €150,000 since 2005.
In total, five staff members had received an additional €739,000 between 2005 and 2010, Reilly claimed.
The Minister was responding to questions from Seán Fleming TD who said that what is now required was action from the Government to ensure that the payments now stop. “What the people will want to know at this stage is when will these payment stop, ” the Fianna Fáil deputy stressed.
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The payments should not only stop but should be paid back. And those who facilitated the payments sacked and prosecuted.
These public servants on €100,000 and more a year rob the sweet shop while the parents of desperately ill children fund raise tirelessly , how much would be enough for these impoverished professionals ,it would take some of the lower paid 4 to 5 years to earn that kind of money and they would be jailed and sacked if they robbed the sweet shop !
Is there any difference between this and the government ministers breaking their own rules when paying their advisors over the limits that they set? Just a question.
I’m sure they won’t loose a wink of sleep, but the patients and parents sleeping in chairs counting the tubes hanging out of they’re kids will just feel depressed.
Too many Vultures sitting high up in the branches of Ireland.
The lot of them need a long hard look at themselves. Supposed to be helping others. How can they say their hands are tied because of money? With what they are paid
and its hard to manage to get a decent service for intellectually disabled because there is no money hello!
This is absolutely shocking. To think that you visit the sick and pay a car park levy to stuff more money into already bursting satchels of the overpaid Hospital managers and Consultants.
It’s the same as if a school principal was raiding the funds from the cake sale !!,
And I don’t believe this was a sudden surprise revelation – I bet it will come out that this was well known for some time
The Government will say its hands are tied because of contractual obligations and contract law just like the law could not be changed regarding upward-only rents. They will eventually bring in a change of rules (after meeting with unions and coming to an agreement that will not fully satisfy real change) for new contracts only at best.
Reilly will be seen to be endeavouring to find a solution with all parties while he knows full well what will happen. The HSE report is simply a media exercise to bury the issue quickly rather than let many stories leak over a longer period of time.
I forgot to add that surely Revenue have records of these top-up payments assuming all PAYE and USC were paid legally.
Are these sneaky payments part of the new efficiencies under Haddington road?
Don’t think so, Mark. They seem to be from hospital shops and so on. Either profits from services run by the hospital or the payments from car park companies, etc. Shocking really.
I was joking Mary,shocking greed from these people and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Right, Mark. Sarcasm emoticon is :S or ;S. I think I was at the back of the queue when they were handing out sarcasmometers, to say nothing of joke detectors! ;)
I thought bleeding patients was a thing of the past. Obviously not.
So its of to pay 700k to a failed bank manager but they guy who runs our national children’s hospital only gets 110 k? Would you do it? More importantly, could you? I often wonder how many people on here work for the likes of google and do you have any idea what your uber masters are paid? A lot more than the hospitals guys ill bet.
Peanuts and monkeys…..
Katy – I agree, I thought the salary was very low considering the level of responsibility, but the profits from the shop, parking etc should go towards services or facilities, not someone’s pocket.
As a family we spend a great deal of time on the renal ward at Crumlin, which has just been moved to a lesser area in the hospital to accommodate the new cardio ward. It is departments such as these that should be allocated the much needed resources.
Send Rob Ford into the HSE.
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