Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a new strategic HR unit within the Department of Defence. It does not take a rocket scientist to know that if one advertises for a position at half the salary being offered by the HSE, there will not be any applications. There have been no applications for many of the vacant positions within the HSE.

Has the Minister of State asked the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for military salaries to have equivalence to the HSE salary scale? What is he doing to bridge the gap? If the position is re-advertised at a median point between the HSE salary scale and what was advertised before, there will be no further applicants. It would not be a proper advertising of a position if the Minister of State knows there will not be any applicants.

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