.RobinSwannMoH has written to conormurphysf asking him to set a pay policy which is a necessary step to awarding health service pay rises.
In July an independent pay review body recommended that health staff in NI should get a pay increase of £1,400The NI health minister has written to the finance minister asking him to set a pay policy which is a necessary step to awarding health service pay rises.
Finance Minister Conor Murphy has said a public sector pay policy cannot be set in the absence of an executive.recommended that health staff in NI should get a pay increase of £1,400.However, in a letter circulated among executive ministers in recent days he said: "I am still being advised that I cannot make any formal announcement regarding health service pay awards in the absence of an overarching Executive public sector pay policy.
The executive has not been operating since February when the Democratic Unionist Party withdrew from the first minister role in protest at the Northern Ireland Protocol. Meanwhile, it is understood that if national pay recommendations were to be implemented it would cost the Department of Health £215m.Even if the pay rise is not awarded accounting rules mean it may still be deducted from the department's spending totals.
Another £90m of "unfunded pressures" are understood to relate to energy costs although that figure will fall once the non-domestic energy price cap is implemented.
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