Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

From the point of view of the FEMPI legislation, I am still not clear whether Mr. O'Brien is satisfied that, for example, the pension levy has been paid in all instances. The HSE did what Mr. O'Brien called a reasonableness check but that will only show up a certain amount of global information. It will not go into the minutiae. We are all aware that health and public service workers and the services themselves have taken hits over the past few years. In the absence of payment of pension levies and the kind of salary reductions we have seen throughout the consolidated salary pay scale, we could see the development of a two-track health service in terms of payments and we do not want to see that. We do not want a situation to arise where certain doctors, nurses and ancillary staff in hospitals are required to be compliant with the FEMPI legislation while those managing the hospitals in some instances - the section 38 hospitals - are not required to be compliant. We were talking earlier about compliance and how we need to get to a situation where all of these agencies are compliant. I am assuming Mr. O'Brien will not be satisfied that they are compliant until he and all of us are satisfied that pension levies have been paid and salary cuts in the context of FEMPI legislation have been made. Is that the case?