Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach’s reply is, again, not good enough. It seems that those people who were used to living Celtic tiger lifestyles have kept them. In the meantime, people on the front line and at the coalface have had to take massive cuts in their wages and conditions. There are political appointees on all of the hospital boards. Were the appointees aware that the top-up payments were being made to CEOs and other hospital staff? Was the issue discussed by the boards? When Deputy Eric Byrne was a councillor, he was a member of the board of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, for many years. He was replaced by Councillor Michael O’Sullivan. Did those people report to their party leaders that such practices were going on? If they knew what was going on, why did they not report it? If they did not know, why did they not know about it?

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