Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

We now have to target the overall pause to try to bring the system back to a controllable level. Management administration is a very good example and is the highest percentage growth grade code since 2019. In 2023, before I came into this job, it was agreed that there was an additional 1,450 jobs to go into that category. By the end of 2023, it was 2,200.

That is practically fully paused. There is a very small bit that is not, but it is practically fully paused. It is fully paused because we are carrying about 800 unfunded posts. The result of that is the industrial action we are now dealing with.