Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am still talking, Chair. I want the names of those people and I want our committee to undertake a body of work in this regard because a corner of Ireland is being left totally out of this report.

To move on with my questions to Mr. Watt and Mr. Reid, we have all digested this morning's Irish Independent. One of the front-page stories relates to pay in the higher grades of management in the HSE. In spite of everything we have discussed here this morning, how can Sláintecare be delivered when many senior management figures within the HSE are both frustrated and disgruntled because they have been fobbed off by people above them in the management structure for 14 years with regard to having legitimate and approved pay awarded to them? If I follow what the newspaper was saying this morning, in that same time period, Mr. Watt had a pay hike of €81,000. How is it that nothing has been sanctioned for the people in the management levels just below him who have had a pay claim approved, which is now pending? Is that a factor in this not progressing at the speed at which we want it to progress?