Any redundancies within HSE will be voluntary, says Harney

ANY redundancies within the Health Service Executive will be voluntary, Health Minister Mary Harney insisted yesterday.

Ms Harney was responding to a newspaper report that the HSE had proposed to the Government that 200 senior management and 800 clerical and administrative posts should go as part of a voluntary early retirement scheme.

But Ms Harney said it was too early to speculate on the plan as a review of staffing levels in the health service was continuing.