Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-11-22
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I really think the Deputy is all over the place, quite frankly. A minute ago he was criticising us for increasing the minimum wage and then two minutes later he was saying he thinks it is right that there should be an increase in the minimum wage and that people should be paid more. He talks about an employee in the HSE being paid €974,000. There is no employee in the HSE paid €974,000. It is possible that a medical contracting firm, or something like that, got that payment but certainly there is no employee of the HSE receiving that payment.
The recruitment freeze the Deputy refers to-----

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Sitting date: 2023-11-22