Jobs Former HSE boss appointed to Uisce Éireann boardState’s water utility company has also named a new chair
The Last Post Matt Cooper: Finally, penny drops that treating drugs scourge as justice issue has utterly failedVaradkar’s belated conversion to examining health solutions needs to be backed up with money and resources
Politics ‘Why have a Citizen’s Assembly at all?’ - How the mood around drug prosecutions changedThe Citizen’s Assembly voted to end the current system of prosecuting people caught with illegal drugs for personal use
Health Assembly chair recommends drugs diversion modelPaul Reid says laws in place must be acted on, even with new legislative proposals
Health Urgent and significant change in approach to drug use needed, says citizens’ assembly chairPreliminary data shows there were 409 poisoning deaths linked to drugs in Ireland in 2020
Politics Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs hears how early trauma leads to addictionChair Paul Reid said he expected the weekend’s discussions to be “the most innovative, creative, brave, and courageous” Citizens’ Assembly meeting ever
Citizen's Assembly ‘I’ve never taken drugs,’ says Paul Reid as citizens assembly startsDrugs Citizens’ Assembly chair says members will be presented with a variety of advice that ‘reflects the debate that’s happening in Ireland’
Politics Former HSE chief Paul Reid appointed chair of the citizens’ assembly on drugs useThe assembly is due to submit a report to the Houses of the Oireachtas by the end of the year
Health Tusla chief Bernard Gloster appointed new HSE CEOGloster is expected to take up the position in spring 2023, replacing Paul Reid, who departed the role as head of the executive in October
Health Minister for Health wants to ‘finish the job’ in department after reshuffleMinister says progress is being made in health service, but a ‘huge amount of focus’ is still necessary
Health Donnelly admits ‘tensions’ over Navan intervention after Reid cited ‘frustrations’ in resignation letterMinister for Health’s comments come after the outgoing HSE chief executive said he felt constrained in seeking to improve patient quality and outcomes
Health Reid cited ‘frustrations’ and ‘constraints’ in HSE resignation letterComments raise questions about whether perceived political interference in a HSE decision over Navan Hospital played a role in Reid’s resignation
Health Tapes Remarks by DoH officials on leaked recordings ‘an assault on competence of HSE board’, says FinlayDepartment of Health official amends letter of regret to include apology for ‘not appropriate or thought-out’ comments
Health Main job of incoming chiefs will be to usher in new era for HSEThe pandemic emergency meant doing things differently – and the new health service hires at the top must now harness these better methods
Health Tapes ‘As big a sin as it gets’: New leaked tapes show officials in the dark over HSE’s Covid-19 spending Recordings of meetings held as the pandemic was taking hold in the summer of 2020 show the tensions and dysfunction at the heart of the health system as the HSE failed to answer basic questions about its use of public money
Health Tapes Reid told Watt to retract ‘unwarranted slurs’ on HSE following health tape revelationsThe soon-to-depart HSE boss warned its secretary general that the ‘disparaging and damaging manner’ in which his staff were referred to on a whistleblower’s recordings had caused bad feeling within the organisation
The Last Post Matt Cooper: No matter how much the new HSE boss is paid, it won’t make up for the challenges ahead Whoever replaces Paul Reid as head of the HSE will have to try to control spending while at the same time hiring 700 consultant doctors, improving technology, solving the trolley crisis and delivering Sláintecare
Health HSE braces for legal claims over cyber attackExecutive is preparing to notify thousands of people whose data was stolen in last May’s breach
Health Paul Reid to step down as HSE chief executive in DecemberReid, who led the health service throughout the pandemic, said he had no immediate career plans
Health Tapes Department suspends Health Tapes whistleblower as investigation loomsShane Corr submitted several disclosures to the Public Accounts Committee in recent months after making recordings of department meetings