A HSE internal audit of the Pandemic Special Payment said there were notable control weaknesses and governance gaps that should inform future crisis response payment schemes.<\/p>\n
It says that \u20ac712,000 of duplicate bonus payments and 63 HSE overpayments are still under investigation.<\/p>\n
The one-off special payment was made by the government for frontline employees dealing with Covid-19 between March 2020 to June 2021.<\/p>\n
The payment was \u20ac1,000 or \u20ac600 tax-free, depending on an employee’s contracted hours.<\/p>\n
In total, \u20ac211 million was paid to 223,000 staff.<\/p>\n
The audit says there were payments to senior Health Service Executive managers and high appeal rates, indicating potential misinterpretation of the scheme at local levels.<\/p>\n
A lack of early PPSN based validation for Section 38 agencies (funded but not run by the HSE) delayed duplicate payment detection.<\/p>\n
Of the \u20ac211m paid, \u20ac88m was to HSE employees and \u20ac51m to Section 38 agencies.<\/p>\n
Also, \u20ac72m was paid to the non-HSE and non-Section 38 workforce.<\/p>\n
The audit, which has been published by the HSE, says there was no formal post-implementation or “lessons learned” review conducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A HSE internal audit of the Pandemic Special Payment said there were notable control weaknesses and governance gaps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-196323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}