Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion
Mr. John O'Brien:
There is correspondence immediately prior to the receipt of the sanction from the Secretary General to the CEO of the HSE. The sanction was dated 28 April 2008, but five days before the sanction arrived in the Department, the Secretary General wrote to the CEO of the HSE requesting his views on the implementation of the review body report. It is very clear from that correspondence that the Secretary General had formed certain views about paying HSE-----