Gilmore warns of cuts over pay cap breaches

Hospitals and health agencies which breach pay caps for managers and give out top-up payments could face punitive cuts to their overall budgets, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has warned.

The Labour leader also said this could apply to the Central Remedial Clinic after recent revelations that it had €14m in its account and had used funds raised to top up officials pay.

Amid reports that a €113m savings review of medical cards is to be revised downwards, Mr Gilmore said it had yet to be decided how exactly health savings would be made next year.