HSE CEO Paul Reid
This is obscene!
In 2019 he took the job for €300k , why the huge pay rise in 2 years? Why is the post getting paid that much in the first place !For reference the president of the US gets paid roughly $400k. https://t.co/q1AcFdTdzi
— Natalie O’Regan (@NatalieORegan1) July 6, 2021
This morning.
Via Independent.ie:
HSE chief Paul Reid’s remuneration package topped €426,000 last year, including €358,651 in salary.
Mr Reid, who began a five-year contract in May 2019, and has become one of the country’s most recognisable faces during the pandemic, received €48,416 allowances on top of his salary. He has a benefit in kind of €19,141 to cover his company car, according to the HSE’s annual report.
HSE chief Paul Reid’s pay package tops €426,000 – more than twice Taoiseach’s wage (Independent.ie)
look, if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. and you should be glad that we’re able to attract high level professionals at the top of their game to foster a culture of excellence and delivery.
*wishes we had a sarcasm font*
We’re all in this together.
Are watering eyes a symptom of Covid? Might get tested after reading that figure…
Not to mention the extra car and Army driver to run him from Leitrim to Dublin.
He’s sweating more than Christy Moore ever did knowing that any day the whole charade will fall apart and all the public will realise he’s only a Eircom middle management cable guy chancing his arm.
Not bad money for a telephone installer
His salary must be pegged to the rising cost of rent in Dublin.
It’s the taxpayer who is being pegged wha!
He’s the CEO of an organisation with 67000 direct employees.
Sure, he makes twice what the Taoiseach makes, but he makes about 40% of what the CEO of my company makes, which is slightly bigger than that.
Isn’t that a better comparison? He’s making 40% of the base pay of a comparably sized multinational corporation (the multinational boss is possibly making a lot more in shares etc when the good times return).
Why compare apples and oranges? He’s not a politician. He’s a public sector CEO making less than half of what a private sector CEO might expect to make for an organisation of that size. As a taxpayer, I’m relatively satisfied with that.
And your satisfaction is based on his performance is it? Wowzers. In any private company he would have been given the boot way before now. But he’s absolutely brilliant for public service.
No, I’m not satisfied with the performance of the health service. I’m satisfied with the remuneration of the role.
I was most dissatisfied with Tony O’Brien, and thought he should go, and I thought the other Tony should have gone with him for standing over the Cervical Check fiasco.
For this guy, I’m not sure on what basis he’d need to go, but I don’t keep a scorecard. He doesn’t have a mandate for transformation, he can’t say boo without the unions, and he doesn’t have enough funding for restructuring.
If he doesn’t have a mandate, or much power as you say, to do anything, why is he being paid so much? What are his responsibilities. Press conferences?
imagine not having a Chief Information Security Officer for an organisation with 67,000 direct employees?
at all, whatsoever
er, hang on I have another unknown call to answer here
which reminds me…haven’t done today’s check on my bank balance yet…
ugh
Didn’t have one? Or there was an unfilled vacancy?
He gets paid well to take hard decisions, to weed out incompetence and fire those responsible
@ Ronan, you are easily satisfied.
+ 420k
Yep, I’m ok with the pay scales for senior public sector appointments, which is all I’ve said.
Elsewhere, I think teachers and nurses should get more money.