Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 September 2012
1564. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will detail, in tabular form, the number of staff in receipt of top-up pay in excess of €10,000, €50,000, €100,000, and €200,000 per hospital; the average amounts of payments; the basis for the payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37104/12]
Amharc ar fhreagraIt is essential that organisations funded by the HSE to provide services on its behalf comply in full with Government policy on public service pay.
Following publication of the recent HIQA report on Tallaght Hospital, which identified the issue of additional payments being made to a small number of executives, the Secretary General of my Department wrote to the then CEO of the HSE, asking him to inform him of the measures he proposed to take to ensure that such practices are not extant in other hospitals funded by the HSE. The HSE is at present undertaking a detailed review of the remuneration arrangements for senior staff in all organisations funded under section 38 of the Health Act 2004. When this has been completed, a report on the matter will be considered by the Board of the HSE in the first instance.
