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SIX CONSULTANTS HIRED by the Minister for Health will cost over €131,000 for six weeks of work, according to a report in the Medical Independent.
Reporter Ailbhe Jordan says that the six people will advise on the Primary Care Reimbursement Scheme and the Regional Directors of Operations (RDOs), both of which make up a part of James Reilly’s restructuring plans.
The Department of Health is paying a total of €131,000 plus VAT to PA Consulting for the six-person team.
A spokesperson for the Department told TheJournal.ie that the consultants are “undertaking an enormous amount of work” that is regarded as critical to the future of the health service.
“PA have been engaged to undertake a wide-ranging review of financial management and cost containment systems in the health service,” the Department said in a statement.
This review includes an assessment of the Ogden Report – a review of how the HSE manages its budgets and how to be more financially efficient – and the preparation for the implementation of its recommendations.
It will also analyse existing cost containment plans, assess various options for achieving cash savings and provide recommendations for strengthening the financial management infrastructure within the Irish health service.
The reviews come as the HSE announced €130 million in cost-saving measures last week as part of a wider effort to take €850 million of next year’s health budget.
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Isn’t there a review of something every week millions spent on them and nothing achieved
a medical GP who took the oath to perfect and maintain life guess that means nothing anymore
Hang your head in shame Dr.
Hope this includes a shave and a haircut for James.
What must they be thinking of him in european circles.
When you have a government unwilling to change, you will get this overpayment. Thank the Irish people for voting Fine Gael into office in 2011.
Tim I would like to hear the alternate suggestion to putting FG into power, easy to point the finger without offering a solution! We’re stuck in what will always be a two party country, I’m not too knowledgeable on politics but is it actually possible to have a government without FF or FG? At this stage they may as well just join up such is the inherent similarities between them!
Ted..Tim’s solution..is 2 words. Sinn fein…
Dr. Death has no connection with patients and he treats the DEPT of Health as a business (and he cannot maintain his own business and keep out of Stubbs gazette) Dr Death since taking office he has further destroyed our health system and has never faced the people with the truth after all He closed Roscommon A&E on lies about figures on fatalities and he also said that HIQA closed the Roscommon A&E (when HIQA have clarified that they never put a foot inside Roscommon Hospital and NEVER even suggested that it should close) and Dr Death also said that the HSE closed the A+E again lies from the Liars
How hard is it to say the problem is with the wages of the fat cats at the top. Their wages have to come down.
I am sick and tired of front line staff being eaten alive by the media to try and protect their incomes when it is the fat cats at the top who hide in their ivory towers, taking all the glory when things go right but none of the pain when things go wrong.
Private sector and public sector front line staff have taken the brunt of peoples anger while bosses retire with golden handshakes and ordinary people told to get a life. Shame on government, the opposition for allowing a few top civil servants destroy the country to protect their own wages and pension pots.
It is time for front line public servants (nurses, guards etc.) and front line private staff (bank tellers, call centre staff etc.) to unite and in a non violent protest tell government and the elite it is time for a fair distribution of wealth and a fair distribution of the pain. Pain so far only felt by the PAYE employees of both public and private sectors.
Two Words for ya.
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CROKE PARK
Croke Park is a smoke screen. Those at the top of the public service gain more from it including TDs than front line staff. Overall Croke Park is a negative for front line staff as it can be used as an excuse to get front line staff to change location or change working hours without the additional pay and expenses still given to TDs, top civil servants like university presidents etc.
Croke Park has already delivered on its agreed savings with another year to go. What’s your point?
130,000/6/6/40=90e/hour.
That’s 182,000pa which is the maximum a consultant can earn in Ireland. These are consultants who have spent the last 20years training, and dealing with the mahoosive mess that is the HSE. I’m not seeing the point of this story.
The figure may look shocking at first, but this works out at about €75 an hour + expenses. The consultants are probably the top of their game, but probably earning about €60k each unless one of them is the owner.
The problem is how this assessment cannot be done in-house, as there are people employed within this, and other, departments of government that are higher paid, and can should have the competence to perform this assessment of systems, but there professional assessment is always – hire someone else.
Were flexibility and willingness to perform other duties part of this public sector agreement? I guess not.
yeah. How can this not be done in-house, especially when they have a doctor in charge of the health department. Go figure
Alien8, 60 grand a year @ 75 euros an hour means they work an average of 15 hours a week!
YFG must try harder…
Little Jim – if the organization you work for contracts you out to someone else, you get a fraction of what they charge.
I know business is a complete mystery to you but even that much should be obvious.
Are you for real; consultants are top of their game! The Dept has layers and layers of management and a shite computer system/record keeping. I reckon 1st year students in secondary school could give the departments the once over and give them their solutions!!! €75 + expenses too much!!
Imagine what good that money would do for a school but instead it goes into the pocket of those shower of….
Imagine if they were actually accountable for the advice they were giving. !!!!!
more old bollocks, if he cant do the job without someone holding his hand get rid of him
More tax payers money wasted..
FFS when will this waste end ?
There has been hundreds of millions wasted since this crowd took over..
NAMA paying €500,000 per month on valuations costing millions every year.
Again money for the boys.
SIPTU 5 million belonging to HSE not accounted for and nobody brought to task.
TDs getting paid an allowance just to show up for work.
A TD defrauds the revenue and not only holds his position in the government but now he is claiming leaders allowance of €41,000 TAX FREE.
30 million spent on recommending the Matter as the site for the new children’s hospital.Land locked,traffic congested site with no room for future expansion.
Dogs on the street come to mind .
And if you think the HSE is in trouble now just wait for the fall out from the property tax because these are the same people that also pay health insurance which will be canceled to pay this tax putting further pressures on the HSE funds.
I could go on..
We are heading over a cliff with these idiots running the country..
Well worded hear hear !!!
Millions spent by the HSE on redundancies.
Staff take redundancy on Friday and are back doing the same job Monday through an agency costing 30% more .
WTF
Seriously PLEASE someone explain that to me ????
If this country was a company all the heads of departments would be fired..
Super summary Eddie…and still the Irish public just moan about it…but still no nationwide protests against this ongoing madness…are we thick and stupid? Rise people Rise!!!
@David
The list of waste is endless
Back last march or april THE GOVERNMENT spent €85,000 during the process of hiring an internal candidate to replace Kevin Cardiff as the secretary general of the Department of Finance.
This includes €10,000 spent on advertising and around €75,000 on two different executive search recruitment firms and then promoted John Moran from his position as Second Secretary in the department..
No One from the civil service or the hse multi layers of management was competent enough to undertake this task? Interesting….
The HSE is the largest employer in the state at something like 65000 people directly , I don’t know how many are administration but why do they need to always take on more external advisors at huge costs when they want to do anything meaningful , why can the existing management not be charged to make the changes and recommendations themselves m is that not we pay the administration management to do ?
Bosses who have assistants..who have assistants..who have assistants…need I say more??
There’s clearly been an endemic culture of waste in government for at least the last two decades? Why, oh why, oh why can’t they eliminate it overnight?
You have to want to eliminate it Damocles!!!
political leeches thats all we have in this country soon as they get into power, greedier they get. Time the people took a stand and send some of these obese salaried and expenses money pigs to a slaughter house!
Taking the piss or what…
Tell you what guys I’m a frontline line worker I will take leave and do the review for them starting at the top down I can earn my years wages in a couple of weeks way to go me
Me too! I’ll help you…for free!
boloxes is it
Wash your mouth out lady!
Mick Collins stop being a troll!!!
So he pays a couple of experts. Said experts paid a packet, find very little. Anything that is found no matter how much it will improve the service, will be ignored. Why? Because we have incompetent fools there or we can’t afford to act on the advice of the experts because our bondholders need paying
Thought they had no money.
They have no money to spend on health. paying fat cat’s and advisor’s is a totally different story
its official. They just don’t give a shit and are throwing money at their buddy advisers. Another day of absolute and disgusting waste of funding channelled under the label of a report to wealthy undeserving blood suckers.
You expect him to do every task in the department single handedly? Great, so all the civil servants can be sacked.
shameful stuff this
simple solution let Reilly resign!
Wat a joke
Reilly really knows how to grab a shotgun and aim it at his foot, plonker
Public sector work practice changes, will always be drawn out as opposed to private sector reforms, as the latter
would simply go under… if working practices could not adapt swiftly,just look at Brendan Holwins promise this
morning to change “leaders allowances” to a vouched system..in his words “in the lifetime of this government”why
not next week?next month?..
The public sector gravy train is a slow old beast,with many carriages to pull..the minute it meets a hill it grinds to a halt…
More reviews wasting Tax payers money. That amount would nearly pay the salary of 3 frontline staff for a year
Jesus the HSE can’t win with you lot, they do nothing and you bitch and when they get somebody in with experience to do a review you still bitch.
Reviews are time consuming and they are not free especially if they require a third party to be brought in…and this is often what it takes to see problems.
I think the point here is, they bring in all these advisor’s and still do a shit job, why 6 advisor’s.. why not 4 or 2, the tax payer foots the bill for all this we should get something in return instead of all these U turns. All we get is smoke screens and non accountability.
Sorry I agree about the need for reviews but costing 130000 thats where I draw the line.
These reports usually provide excellent advice but it’s the failure of implementation that is the problem.
There is no political will and vested interests block every attempt at change. Every interest group is outside the Dail when any suggestion of change is mentioned.
The sad reality is that it is we are completely divided as a nation – we have adopted a every man for himself outlook and politicians respond accordingly to our demands.
We need to unite as a country under new radical leadership, where it comes from is hard to know.
same old, same old
Pertect life I meant
third time’s a charm
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*Protect
Thanks Simon iPad keyboards and long nails don’t go together lol
you need to get tactile with a keyboard :-) can’t stand them on screen keyboard myself
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
gggg
Too much money, it takes me a year to earn what one person is going to earn in six weeks. I have no permanent contract, no increments, have to travel 40miles round trip through the bl**dy toll bridge and stuck at 19 hours per week cause we’ve been cut back so much. I am a nurse actually delivering care and having to solve problems everyday in order to try and save the country money. I am totally sick of having my life and occupation diminished by people earning way more than me. Conducting yet another review, writing a report and then have the government say that they do not have to actually follow the recommendations (as has happened so many times before) will probably make me physically sick.
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