Success of Civil Service reforms may not be evident for yearsAnalysis: The plan is ambitious but a lot will depend on how it works, writes Martin Wall.Fri Oct 31 2014 - 01:00
National Museum considers closures and entrance fees to deal with 2015 funding crisisBoard believes funding for next year not enough to cover running costsFri Oct 31 2014 - 01:00
Government needs to win back the support of workersCoalition keen to repeal unpopular powers from the crisisThu Oct 30 2014 - 11:45
Reforms to make it easier to remove civil servantsThree-year plan for Civil Service includes new performance management systemThu Oct 30 2014 - 11:06
Restore pay cuts to lower paid health staff, union tells VaradkarSiptu: ‘Attacks on the earnings of lower-paid health workers will not be accepted’Wed Oct 29 2014 - 16:55
Varadkar supports pay parity for new hospital consultantsBallot of IMO members on pay proposals expected to be tightWed Oct 29 2014 - 08:38
Government to decide against appointing Civil Service chiefExpert group’s recommendation for performance management to be acceptedTue Oct 28 2014 - 06:48
HSE breached tender rules in extending senior manager contract in LimerickIndustrial action continuing at hospital group over high payments to executiveSat Oct 25 2014 - 01:02
€35 million lost in move of site of new children’s hospitalSite at St James’s is three times the size of site earmarked at MaterFri Oct 24 2014 - 11:07
Garda seeks prosecution over money spent by Positive Action€100,000 of support group’s funds were ‘spent by woman for her own ends’Fri Oct 24 2014 - 01:00
HSE seeks funding for 100 midwifery staff and 10 additional consultant obstetriciansNew maternity strategy being drawn upThu Oct 23 2014 - 01:00
Welfare cuts urged by Howlin’s department in reviewLaw Reform Commission’s abolition was also suggested in reviewTue Oct 21 2014 - 10:46
Departments argued against cuts and pitched for funding increasesHealth and education sought more moneyTue Oct 21 2014 - 07:24
Department of Transport warns that CIÉ faces a looming cash crisisGovernment advised that further funding cuts could lead to bankruptcyTue Oct 21 2014 - 07:24
Departments sought hundreds of millions more than allocatedEducation sought additional €500 million but was given just over €60 millionMon Oct 20 2014 - 16:21
Traveller family denied wake for teenage son awarded nearly €6,400Tribunal awards maximum compensation in discrimination case against funeral directorsMon Oct 20 2014 - 12:20
Recovery in residential construction gains momentumSignificant rises in number of planning applications and building startsMon Oct 20 2014 - 06:30
Applicant pool ‘disappointing’ for some top Civil Service postsConcerns raised by secretaries general over capable staff not going for promotionsMon Oct 20 2014 - 01:00
‘Problematic’ zero-hour contracts for workers to be examinedMinister says he will make recommendations to Cabinet on foot of new reportFri Oct 17 2014 - 11:52
PAC expected to compel witnesses over €4m ‘slush fund’ accountFormer Siptu official Matt Merrigan seeking to appeal direction that he gives evidenceFri Oct 17 2014 - 08:22
Howlin says next public service deal will herald a new era beyond crisisSiptu says it no longer in space of pay cutsThu Oct 16 2014 - 17:44
No public pay increases next yearRises to be dealt with in 2016 budget, says HowlinWed Oct 15 2014 - 10:30
End to public service staff moratorium announced in BudgetNew posts in education and gardaí but Howlin says no resources for unreformed servicesTue Oct 14 2014 - 19:59
Private patients to pay €400 even if treated on trolley or chairHospitals receive HSE instructions on charges following advice from Attorney GeneralTue Oct 14 2014 - 01:00
Agency doctors to be banned from working for HSE for more than two monthsHealth authority to clamp down on €200m bill for agency workersTue Oct 14 2014 - 01:00
Union and hospitality sector clash over lower Vat rateBenefits of 9% rate ‘not passed on to customers or employees’Fri Oct 10 2014 - 13:06
Former Siptu official queries plans to compel him to appearPublic Accounts Committee investigating account which received €4m in State fundsFri Oct 10 2014 - 09:28
Some 2,000 hospital staff vote for strikeRow centres over proposals to end weekend premium working for porters, catering staffFri Oct 10 2014 - 01:00
Government shelves plans for statutory patient safety authorityKey element of Reilly's health reforms scrapped in favour of internal HSE bodyThu Oct 09 2014 - 01:00
Extra holidays may be on cards for some civil servantsMore leave would be in return for lower paid workers moving from weekly to fortnightly payTue Oct 07 2014 - 10:39
State faces €100m bill as doctors take case over pay dealConsultants to sue over Government’s failure to pay wage increases of up to €40,000 per year promised under 2008 contractMon Oct 06 2014 - 12:05
HSE rejects claims waiting lists falsifiedMemo suggests HSE advised manipulation of ‘long waiter’ figures to meet targetsMon Oct 06 2014 - 10:31
Patients ‘dying unnecessarily’ waiting for hospital bedsIrish Hospital Consultants Association president says health system is in crisisSat Oct 04 2014 - 13:20
Health chief questions public service pay-for-change formulaJim Breslin tells hospital consultants budget unlikely to provide funds to meet all demandsSat Oct 04 2014 - 11:40
Varadkar described Reilly pay cut for new consultants as a “mistake”, claims IHCAConsultants say partial reversal of 30 per cent reduction does not go far enoughSat Oct 04 2014 - 01:00
IMO votes not to carry out review into McNeice pension dealLeadership of union warned process could be costly and run into legal difficultiesFri Oct 03 2014 - 21:19
More train strikes averted as unions accept pay cut planMembers of NBRU voted in favour by 61% to 39%, while Siptu vote was 79% to 21%Fri Oct 03 2014 - 15:50
New hospital group chief to earn €220,000Former head of cancer programme to retain her current terms and conditionsFri Oct 03 2014 - 11:28
IMO members to decide on review of McNeice retirement packageOutcome of ballot due todayFri Oct 03 2014 - 06:00
Civil servant who stepped down from Justice to move to HSEBrian Purcell to be new head of compliance in Health Service ExecutiveThu Oct 02 2014 - 01:00
Varadkar says he not looking for ‘loads of extra money’Minister for Health wants to hold health spending at 2014 levelWed Oct 01 2014 - 07:42
HSE managers to be re-deployed to fill new hospital group chief executive postsHSE was unable to fill positions after recent competitionTue Sept 30 2014 - 12:33
National Gallery warns against new funding planGallery says changes to State funding process would compromise its ‘perceived independence’Sat Sept 27 2014 - 09:16
Five farmers overpaid by average of €116,000 each last yearC&AG’s reports reveals errors and fraud in rent supplement of some €20m in 2013Fri Sept 26 2014 - 16:54
Increase in applications to HSE to retain top-up pay for managersAgencies claim managers had contractual entitlement to additional paymentsThu Sept 25 2014 - 01:00
More GPs work for HSE than ever before - VaradkarFamily doctors to stage protest amid claims general practice at breaking pointWed Sept 24 2014 - 13:01
Dublin Bus heading for 'more stable financial future'Company reduced costs by €60m per yearTue Sept 23 2014 - 14:30
Pickets to resume at Kishoge Community College building siteUnite says row over alleged under-payments to workers could escalateMon Sept 22 2014 - 01:00
