I’m a junior doctor NcHd. what allowances? didn’t see anything like that in my paycheck so please be clear about who you are saying get allowances. Oh by the way I’m not paid for all the hours I work. But that’s okay, I’m used to getting the short end of the stick in the name of patient well being. that’s what they use to cut our pays. And you wonder why there are shortages. answer, all your own Irish doctors are going to Australia and new Zealand where they are treated as people not mere commodities

€166 million spent on healthcare staff? That’s a disgrace. We could have had over 300 extra bankers for that money.

Round two of Private Sector V Public Sector. Seats, and action.

Holy crap…anyone fancy ripping up the script and starting this country all over again…maybe a bit like some 40 years ago,when people actually met each other,were genuine,didn’t want to rip each other off, went to work for a pay cheque not a career,bought a modest house to live in not as investment,and of course we weren’t all in a hurry towards impending stress and heart attacks……but jeez listen to me ranting on,must rush and get my full 5 hours kip before I start all over again tomorrow…….

Health Service Executive..Executive gravy train for Executives who do nout only wander around being Executives.

When you consider over 100k employee it ain’t that much 166million. People are such fools they always biting the carrot and fighting over how much people are getting. In terms of pay etc we are on a par with the rest of the devolped world. Spin doctors are laughing there ass off at how easy it is to focus attention away from govt.

Money that could be spent on looking after kids in state care ..,.,..

Because if you work in the private sector, unions mentioned in your post will take your money, then tell you that their hands are tied, when the company you work for decides to close its Irish operation, even though said operation is making profit. Think yourself lucky that Ireland has such generous statutory redundancy law, the local SIPTU branch secretary told our workforce!

Hope articles such as this never detracts from the great work done by nursing staff. There amazing and work their socks off. It’s there bosses and paper pushers that destroy the image of the hse.

If you look at the figures, you’ll probably find that for every overworked and underpaid frontline nurse or doctor, there’s two or three underworked and overpaid admin workers on a 9 to 5 with a state pension, this is what needs to go, we need to get rid of the pen pushers and get more frontline staff who provide such invaluable care to us all.

To be fair many administrative staff start on a fairly basic wage and take a lot of paperwork and phone calls away from frontline staff dealing with clinical issues. I worked in one hospital where I could spend up to three hours a day answering phonecalls about outpatient appointments when I had no access to the appointments booking system which frustrated both the patient enquiring and myself. Some admin staff are invaluable and under appreciated.

Allowances are often used as an incentive for further training in many clinical areas e.g. Nursing. Staff often have to pay for their own upskilling and with a rigid pay scale there’s no opportunity to recover this investment. Improved training opportunities and improved conditions upon basic may be an suggestion but the cost of implementing such in a slow moving monster like the HSE would probably cost the taxpayer more than the allowances in the first place.

Fire the lot of them and replace them with journalists.

It works out at:
Per person €4337.57 each, or, €83.41 per week
After 20% tax, PRSI @ 4%, Universal Social Charge @ 7%, pension @6.5%, pension levy @ 7.5% =45%
On average about €45.88 per week.
After 41% tax, PRSI @ 4%, Universal Social Charge @ 7%, pension @6.5 %, pension levy @ 7.5% =66%
On average about €28.36 per week.