Following the identification of serious capacity issues in a number of hospitals in Galway and Limerick, the Minister for Health sought urgent approval from my Department on 2 December 2011 to appoint two identified senior managers from within the health system to new roles as the Group CEOs for the Galway/Roscommon and the Mid-West Hospital Groups.
On 13 December 2011 my Department sanctioned the appointment of two persons as Group CEOs on the basis of temporary transfers. The post in the Mid-West Hospital Group was sanctioned at HSE National Director Level 2 level. For the Galway/Roscommon post the remuneration approved was on a personal to holder basis, which the Department of Health advised was commensurate with the existing remuneration package of the individual concerned.
Following a further submission from Department of Health in October 2012, the rate for future appointments to Hospital Group CEO posts was sanctioned in December 2012 at HSE National Director Level 3 (€145,959). The above salary rate has been subject to the appropriate reduction applied under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 from 1 July 2013.
