Mind boggling figures

October 6, 2009 in EU, Health/HSE by Anthony | 3 comments

110,000 employees in the Health Service Executive struggle to provide a service for a tiny percentage of Ireland’s 4.5 million population.

40,000 EU bureaucrats operate an administration system that serves a population of 500 million

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  1. Les’s avatar

    Les on October 6, 2009 at 11:45 am

    Let’s put that in a somewhat starker perspective.

    There are 2,029,800 people at work in Ireland (Source http://www.cso.ie 2008 figures) if 110,000 people are employed by the HSE, that means one in every 20 people employed in the country works for the HSE – not the public service, just the HSE. Wow!

    If we assume a population of 4.5 million, that means that one in every 40 PEOPLE works for the HSE, man, woman and child!

    Explain to me again why we have waiting lists in our hospitals ;-)

  2. Bock the Robber’s avatar

    Bock the Robber on October 7, 2009 at 1:03 am

    To compare like with like, how many of the 110,000 are administrative peple and how many deliver front-line services?

  3. Anthony’s avatar

    Anthony on October 7, 2009 at 10:00 am

    To my knowledge Bock, a good percentage are administrative. It’s this sector that has ballooned in recent years and it’s this sector that decides who goes and who stays from the front-line services