Varadkar: HSE directive will not ban all new recruitment

Latest: Minister for Health Leo Varadkar later denied that a new HSE directive will mean a total ban on new recruitment.

Update 4.04pm: Minister for Health Leo Varadkar later denied that a new HSE directive will mean a total ban on new recruitment.

“What the directive does is prevent different bits of the health service from recruiting unfunded posts, or without authorisation,” he said.