Department Of Public Expenditure

It is “critical” that the Department of Health controls spending overruns this year, the Government has said, adding that new control measures had led(...)

Good morning. The Cabinet meets at Government Buildings this morning (the regular Tuesday meeting having been postponed because the Taoiseach was in (...)

Sacking people is not the answer to dealing with the issue of overspending in the health service, Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe has (...)

The HSE has put in place a cap on all spending on employee overtime and on the use of agency staff in a new attempt to control expenditure. HSE direc(...)

The dispute that will bring widespread disruption to hospital services on Wednesday essentially boils down to when thousands of support staff will rec(...)

The HSE has targeted home-help hours for cuts as part of efforts to plug a €500 million hole in the health budget this year. Official documents seen (...)

A planned strike by hospital support staff on Thursday will have a significant impact on services, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has warned. Hos(...)

The secretary general of the Department of Public Expenditure Robert Watt has said he will not appear at an Oireachtas committee today to discuss the (...)

Health spending has sharply accelerated in recent weeks, leading to fears in Government of further overspending in the sector this year. The rate of(...)

Almost 800 new special needs assistants are to be allocated to schools from September. The increased allocation reflects the fact that record numbers(...)