The HSE is still paying recently retired workers on hefty pension packages as much as €92,442 a year to come back and fill vacant posts.

Public hospitals have spent over €3.2m on debt collectors to hunt down failed patient payments in just seven years.

ALMOST 3,000 people have been given the swine flu vaccine within the first 48 hours of the initial wave of the mass inoculation scheme, despite complaints some GPs have yet to receive the vital drug.

THREE cocaine clinics due to open this month have been delayed due to a recent industrial relations dispute, it emerged yesterday.