Did it look a bit challenging for you mate?
€90,000 pay rise for health secretary general
New salary of €292,000 set for vacancy in Department of Health
Martin Wall
ROBERT WATT: IS INTERIM SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
The Government has approved a pay rise of more than €90,000 for the position of secretary general of the Department of Health, making the person to be appointed to the role the highest-paid civil servant in the country.
The post, which is being advertised by open competition, is to attract a salary of €292,000 per annum.
Earlier this week, the secretary general of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Robert Watt was appointed as interim secretary general of the Department of Health pending the competition.
Mr Watt is being paid his existing Department of Public Expenditure salary of €211,000 a year.
Under current salary regulations in the Civil Service, there are three pay rates for secretaries general of Government departments – grades I, II and III, with grade I being the highest paid at over €211,000 per year. The grade I secretaries general are currently in the Department of An Taoiseach, Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure.
Up to now the secretary general post in the Department of Health has not been considered to be in the top tier.
However, on foot of the Government decision there will now be a fourth and more highly paid post as secretary general in the Department of Health, at least for the five -year duration of the term of the new post.
Up to now, the post of secretary general of the Department of Health attracted a salary of just over €201,000.
However, while the person appointed as secretary general in the Department of Health will be the highest-paid civil servant in the country, there are higher pay levels in place in parts of the broader public service.
It is understood that the new salary of €292,000 for the Department of Health post is being set at the level of governor of the Central Bank.
The head of the HSE, Paul Reid, is paid close to €350,000 a year.
The Department of Public Expenditure said yesterday the role of secretary general of the Department of Health was a highly complex one with a very challenging brief, particularly so in the midst of a global pandemic.
“The role, which will be filled through an open and competitive process, will require an individual with the ability, ambition and experience to take on this large portfolio with a department of almost 600 staff and 19 bodies under its aegis, including the HSE. The increased salary for this role for a five-year term is deemed to be commensurate with the scale of the responsibilities, including the vaccine rollout in the immediate term and the challenges of implementing the Government’s ambition for the rollout of Sláintecare and the budget of €21 billion for Health.”
The Department of Public Expenditure said that the salaries for other secretary general positions in the Civil Service had not changed.
I’m not looking for a row but I think Vicky Phelan is a hero. Her primary motive is getting the state to accept responsibility and provide reasonable compensation for its disgraceful treatment of Cervical Check victims. I’d say she’d happily swap her ‘fame’ for good health and a long full life lived in annonyminity.
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Lauding Paul Reid and villifying Vicky Phelan.
Peak TFK. Edge lords everywhere.
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Agreed. There’s an anger in Vicky Phelan and why not as incompetence by the Stafe has limited her life. Nice people get rolled over by the State and medics.
She’s abrasive and not my cup of tea but she’s played a large role in making sure the Cervical Cancer check fuck up remains front and centre.
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The misogyny crew out in force.
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This must be a fake tweet as no sign of it this morning
This must be a fake tweet no sign of it this morning
I’ve been told Paul Reid is a cunt to work for
He’s been on a deleting spree again after sobering up. The tweets about Tubridy, Davy, Vicky phelan and Holohan were up there last night
The rum in Brazil is 80% proof in some brands.
The obsession with Ewan continues
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From lazy cunts in the HSE that don’t want a non medical person to try sort out the shit hole
We’re in for an epic night… That jolly soul Brenda Fricker will regale us with funny yarns from the M&B homes, there’s some sort of tribute to Dolores O’Riordan and before I forget, to add to the mirth, Barry McGuigan will talk about the death of his daughter. Tubbsy will hardly tackle him about his recent litigation travails.
A tremendous nights entertainment all round… *
*Reaches for the Jameson bottle
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Tubs making a late play for COTY
It’s not 2020 anymore
Shur lads on here are still voting for Delaney 
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