Enable Ireland: Finances left in ‘critical’ state over HSE cuts

ENABLE Ireland has told its staff it has been left in a “critical” financial situation after the Health Service Executive confirmed it was imposing a funding cut in line with the public sector pay cuts announced in the budget.

Earlier this week, the Government stopped the HSE forcing pay cuts in line with salary cuts in the public sector on its grant-aided agencies saying staff employed by those agencies were not public servants.

Nonetheless the HSE started contacting the agencies by phone to tell them it was still going to cut their funding. Now in a directive issued to staff and seen by staff union IMPACT, Enable Ireland management has informed workers the HSE will cut funding in line with the December budget’s public sector pay cuts.