Revenue has published its list of tax defaulters.

St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin has been heavily criticised by the Oireachtas Health Committee for failing to appear before it in relation to serious allegations about its procurement practices.

The Beacon Hospital in Dublin has confirmed that an employee featured in an RTÉ report into procurement practices at hospitals has resigned.

Eight hospitals, five of them taxpayer-funded, are under investigation amid claims staff got gifts from a medical supplies firm in return for contracts and commercially sensitive information.

Senior staff in a number of the country’s hospitals have been accused of taking expensive gifts and holidays from a surgical supplies company in breach of the rules of their employment.