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The HSE will claw back funds from any hospital or health agency which continues to flout a ban on top-up payments to senior officials.

Department of Health chiefs will attempt to recoup substantial sums of taxpayers’ money used to pay ‘top-ups’ to senior hospital and health agency bosses.

The master of Holles Street hospital has defended herself from being “vilified” over top-up payments, insisting she has broken no rules over the financial affair.

BED numbers are expected to be increased at a Dublin maternity hospital next year so they can help mothers-to-be who can’t be treated at Holles Street because of its planned cap on numbers.

HEAVILY pregnant women should not be permitted to travel by air or sea to Ireland because of the health risk to both mother and baby, medical experts warned yesterday.