Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion
10:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
Yes. I need additional numbers. Quite frankly, the reason we ended up in the trouble we ended up in last year was that there was no connection or clarity between the numbers, the money and how the control environment operated. We ended up with the pretty severe approach of the blanket pause. Nobody in this room disputes that. We have now put in place a system in which we do not need to rely on that. However, I have been very rigid. I believe the Secretary General will, at times, find tensions coming from his side as well. I have been very clear. We can no longer assign additional pay costs or numbers unless there is a letter with a harp from the Secretary General to me saying my number has increased by a given figure. That is the only way it can be done.
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