Martin Wall

Martin Wall

Public Policy Correspondent

Martin Wall is Public Policy Correspondent of The Irish Times. He is the former Washington Correspondent and Industry Correspondent and has written and broadcast extensively on industrial relations, particularly public-service reform. He has also extensively covered developments in the health service over the past 25 years.

Former fisheries chief ‘targeted’ by comments in Dáil and protected disclosures, WRC hears

Civil servants believed Francis O’Donnell had right to go back to previous role, WRC hearing also told

Blackmail claims by former Inland Fisheries chief considered serious issues by department

‘Particularly perturbing’ that contents of protected disclosure were brought to board meeting, former official says

State paid millions to asylum seeker housing firms after cancelling contracts

‘No value’ secured from deals which represented ‘substantial loss to the taxpayers’

Substantial sums paid to asylum seeker accommodation providers represented ‘no value’

Settlements were reached with three providers who sued after precontract deals cancelled, State spending watchdog says

Additional cost-saving measures would significantly impact frontline services, Tusla warns

Child and family agency says financial management cannot be considered separately from the realities of delivering services

HSE financial ‘imbalance’ at start of year contributed to problems, says chief executive

Anne O’Connor tells staff substantial savings planned for 2025 not delivered and then carried into this year

Children’s hospital contractor Bam submits claims for €983m over disputed costs

Project marked by escalating costs – from €987m to €2.24bn, with delays and fraught relationship between builders and oversight board

Uncertainty over minimum wage hike that would see annual pay pass €30k for first time

Officials resisting further steps towards scrapping means test for carer’s allowance in Budget negotiations

Government to authorise new funding as €700m agreed in April runs out

Ministers told no longer sufficient funds to pay for measures agreed by Ministers over recent months

Fuel protesters warn of further action if budget does not slash taxes

Meeting of over 1,000 people in Co Westmeath hears range of demands for Government

Inside Budget 2027: ‘The meeting was brutal’ - the tensions on the road to new spending package

In 10 days Simon Harris and Jack Chambers will present their budget – in Government back rooms the horse-trading with fellow Ministers is in full swing

Fuel protesters meet Simon Harris after buying table at Meath Fine Gael event

Tánaiste understood to have accepted document from the group saying he would consider it

Financial deficit in health service could hit €1bn, Dáil Public Accounts Committee hears

Scrapping private practice in public hospitals to cost HSE €140m

Health service to have ‘significant deficit’ at end of year, HSE to tell PAC

Gap between funded service levels and real cost of delivery now ‘increasingly structural’, TDs to hear

Irish hospitals appointing non-EU doctors without police clearance

HSE internal audit warns of potential patient safety and reputational risks

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