PLANS to almost double capacity for dialysis patients at a Dublin hospital where services are already overstretched face further delays following a Government request for a value-for-money (VFM) audit.

THERE are not too many bosses who would pay the staff more than themselves, but then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is a rare one. In more senses than one.

The secretary general of the Department of Health today appeared to be the first casualty in the fall-out from the Travers Report into illegal nursing home charges.

HAEMOPHILIACS who received contaminated blood products want the Dáil to send the Lindsay Tribunal report to the Director of Public Prosecutions.