Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I can certainly say, in case anybody thinks we have all taken leave of our senses and we are not doing our jobs, that I have 166,000 staff. The frequency of grievances and pursuit of cases to the WRC and so on is that they happen all the time. I am not aware of that case, but I will certainly look into it. What I can definitively say to the Deputy is that I have had no cause since I came into this role 18 months ago to revisit pandemic payment issues in terms of either the people entitled or categories entitled to it.