Department Of Public Expenditure

Talks with GPs on a new approach to fees in return for service improvements are expected to begin in the coming weeks, a Minister of State has said. (...)

Taxpayers are likely to end up paying up to €200 million to the private operator of the Limerick Tunnel due to lower-than-expected traffic. The Dáil’(...)

Fianna Fáil has warned the Government it would support the next budget only if it boosts pay levels for 60,000 public servants appointed since 2011 on(...)

Lower-paid staff in the public service are paid considerably more than their counterparts in the private sector, the Department of Public Expenditure (...)

The Minister for Health Simon Harris has said he fought his corner “pretty well” in Cabinet in securing an additional €600 million in resources for th(...)

National Lottery sales are at risk of being cannibalised by an influx of so-called parasite lotteries with potentially hundreds of millions of euro be(...)

A struggle between the Health Service Executive and the Department of Health at the highest levels over how the €15 billion spending plan for the heal(...)

The Government is extending the contracts of three secretaries general of high-profile departments whose terms in their jobs were due to expire this y(...)

The HSE has warned the Government has virtually no capacity to deal with any chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident stemming from an a(...)

There comes a time in the tenure of most Ministers for Health when the ambitious reform plans with which they usually start off in office have to over(...)