Pay Hike for HSE bosses while workers face massive cuts
Dublin South West representative Seán Crowe TD has described a proposed pay rise for the HSE Chief Executive and for new chiefs of forthcoming ‘hospital groups’ as scandalous.and comes at a time when workers are being asked to work longer hours, for less pay and to cut sunday overtime allowances.
Crowe said that his party will oppose this pay increase in the Dáil and in every forum where they have a voice.
Deputy Seán Crowe said
Workers and their representatives are currently being asked to agree to work longer hours, take another substantial cut in their basic pay and overtime allowances and now this proposal is jettisoned into the mix.
“Health Minister James Reilly has a brass neck but surely even he and his well paid advisors couldn’t stand over this latest proposal.
” The Minister for Health has to rule out any suggestion of a pay increase for the HSE Chief Executive who already has a salary of nearly €200,000 per annum. The leaked proposal from the Department of Health for an upward review of this already excessive salary is nothing short of scandalous. And to add insult to injury the Department is also proposing bonus payments for the bosses of the ‘hospital groups’ which are to be announced by Minister Reilly next week.
Frontline workers are to take all the cuts and the pain that goes with it but senior management are to rewarded with increases. Its unbelievable and a grotesque way to run any organisation particularly one where you are so reliant on the good will of staff to deliver a first class service.
“Unless he states otherwise we can only presume that Minister Reilly has signed off on these pay hike proposals.
“Despite all that has happened in our economy and society, including the perilous state of our public health services, there is still an elite at the top which is determined to reward itself because they believe ‘we’re worth it’. Under no circumstances should this latest gravy train be allowed to leave the station. Sinn Fein is determined to oppose this pay increase proposal in the Dáil and in every forum where we have a voice.”
