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THE BOARD OF Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin tonight released a statement acknowledging that the Chief Executive Lorcan Birthistle receives remuneration funded from on-site commercial activities.
The hospital wanted to reiterate however that no charitable donations have been used to pay this allowance.
Remuneration
It’s been reported that the hospital’s chief executive received total remuneration of more than €140,000 of which €30,000 was from a “privately funded allowance”.
Following the board’s monthly meeting tonight, the board stated that they were “fully engaged” with the HSE in relation the matter of senior staff top-ups.
They stated that the “contracted remuneration of the Chief Executive has full board approval since his appointment and is fully compliant with PAYE and other statutory deductions”.
Controversy
The statement went on to say that the board “acknowledges the concern that this controversy caused the children, parents, staff and supporters of the hospital” but said that no charitable donations have been used to pay this allowance.
They added:
The board previously attempted to secure approval of the health authorities for an appropriate remuneration level for the Chief Executive.The Board believes this can now be achieved in accordance with the recommendations of the HSE Internal Audit Report and this will be pursued directly with the HSE.
The statement comes following today’s discussion at the Public Accounts Committee in which the HSE chief, Tony O’Brien said that 30 hospital agencies described themselves as compliant with public pay policy, while 12 agencies described themselves as non compliant.
However, he added that of those that described themselves as compliant, 15 agencies were paying remuneration that was not compliant to the public pay policy.
Only 7 agencies were found to be compliant with public pay policy while a further 7 were found to be paying remuneration that was non complaint. One agency had written to the HSE asking for formal approval that non-compliant payment be made.
O’Brien said he considered any additional payment, either from public funds or from private funds to be in breach of HSE pay policy.
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Hilarious.
€2,000 on a 26 month project..wow
In the article it almost sounds like he’s saying 2k is a lot for a 2 year rebranding project.
It’s the 26 months that I was scratching my head over. Not that I’m an expert in rebranding but does this seem like a very lengthy time?
Sounds like a lot of meetings about meetings
A QR code wtf who even uses them !
It’s the gay Skynet taking over. Inevitable really.
QRCODE a bit 2012
QueeR code. Or QuaRe as mick the bull daly might say.
Did John Tierney take over as county manager in Wexford already?
Pay Peanuts = Get Monkeys, €2,000 for 26months work what did they expect? Looks like a snot on a page.
The logo is horrendous too.
Not necessarily a bad thing. The gays will do up your house quicker than the council!
Bahahahahahaaaaa
Big QR code reader users down in Wexford
Still cheaper than Irish water’s….
I guess they’ve got their wires crossed…. I’ll get my coat
Unsurprising! They wasted millions on a pretentious glass building, so why not waste more money (and over 2 years!!) on a logo redesign and an incorrect qr code?
This doesn’t have Hubert Kearns fingerprints on it…2k is only chump change for a man that can blow 60 mil….
It just goes to show that QR is rarely used. I expected the camera to recognise it rather than a separate app.
Classiç.
You can generate a QR code for free online over 2 years for a rebrand ?? Wtf
Vote for us as we can waste your money in a click???
Couldn’t make this up bahaha
Where is Tony Kilduff. I thought he would be all over this blaming same sex marriage.
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