Harney ‘satisfied’ with HSE managers’ pay deal

AN appropriate pay deal is in place for the top Health Service Executive (HSE) positions, Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney insisted yesterday.

She was commenting on the decision by the HSE’s hospital chief Pat McLoughlin to leave his job after claiming that the Department of Finance refused to give him a pensions top-up that he said formed part of his contract.

While Ms Harney said she was sorry to lose someone of the calibre of Mr McLoughlin, she was “absolutely satisfied” that an appropriate remuneration had been provided for senior HSE management and did not want to get involved in any further discussion on the matter.