Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Yes, and that was widely publicised in the last few days, including in The Irish Times. There was no secret about it. We have gone through a number of discussions and we have been very clear. Two things are going to happen to bring absolute clarity. First, each hospital will have its service arrangement for next year by the end of this year. That will be a first. Second, each hospital will have, as part of the service arrangement, a specific clause requiring mandatory compliance with the introduction of the IFMS over 2026 and 2027, as well as the introduction of a system we call the national integrated staff records and pay programme, NISRP. From our point of view, there is no equivocation on this, but yes, there certainly is still some hesitancy about it.

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