SOME publicly paid hospital consultants are doing twice as much lucrative private work as their contract allows, a Dáil committee has found.

The Labour Party has launched a six-point plan to reform the Health Service Executive, which it claims has become a 'bureaucratic Frankenstein'.

The report of John Travers, the former head of Forfás, clearly demonstrates that the Department of Health was aware of uneasiness over the illegal practice of withholding part of the pensions of nursing home residents over the past 28 years.