A booming agency business with the HSE contributed to pre-tax profits at recruitment firm Global Medics almost tripling last year to €3.28m.

Five firms providing agency workers to the HSE were paid €123m last year — with two sharing an almost €87m payout.

A firm supplying agency staff to the HSE was paid over €29m last year.

AN IRISH Medical Council (IMC) fitness to practice committee has decided to remove a radiologist from the doctors’ register for failing to co-operate with an inquiry into the quality of her work in Britain.