Opposition parties have accused the HSE and Department of Health of deliberately delaying publishing its capital spending plan for this year for seven months because the children’s hospital crisis means that no money is available.

The annual overrun in health service spending has more than doubled in the last few years but health bosses are unable to explain why.

At least 15 HSE-funded charities are continuing to flout strict pay level rules imposed for 320 individuals after the Central Remedial Clinic and Rehab financial scandals.

The HSE’s chief financial officer has admitted the organisation does not have enough staff to prevent a repeat of the Central Remedial Clinic and Rehab top-up scandals after the latest multi-million euro financial crisis to hit the system.

The HSE owes thousands of hospital patients and nursing home residents, who were wrongly charged a combined €450m for free public services, tens of millions of euro, officials have admitted.

A leading private hospital has been accused of having a “parasitic dependence” on a linked public facility after it emerged more than half of its consultants have been wrongly taken from the public wing.

Hospitals have been told to break official health policy and charge private patients who receive treatment in public areas — even if they are cared for in corridors, "therapy chairs", or trolleys.

A 37-year-old man has appeared in court after gardaÍ found stolen vehicles and a cannabis grow house during a raid on a business premises in West Dublin.

Kathleen Lynch, the mental health minister, yesterday had to be corrected after she mistakenly announced a new director for mental health services had been appointed.

Fianna Fáil have branded the junior health ministers announcement of a new Mental health Service Director as a embaressing gaff for government.

The HSE has denied an earlier report that a new Mental Health Services Director has been appointed.

A new mental health services director has been appointed by the HSE.

THE HSE’s emergency cost-cutting drive has resulted in managers at one of the capital’s busiest hospitals being warned they are “personally” liable for any agency worker costs exceeding a newly imposed cap.

A man has been jailed for four months for an assault which was at the centre of a dispute that triggered the resignation of former Junior Minister Trevor Sargent.

A man convicted of an assault at the centre of a dispute, which triggered the resignation of former Junior Minister Trevor Sargent, is to appeal the severity of the sentence he received, a court has heard.

A new appeal date has been set for a man convicted of an assault at the centre of a dispute, which triggered the resignation of former Junior Minister Trevor Sargent.

A man's appeal of an assault conviction at the centre of a dispute, which triggered the resignation of former Junior Minister Trevor Sargent, was described today as “a matter of some delicacy” and adjourned until October.

A man appealing an assault conviction that was at the centre of a dispute which triggered the resignation of former Junior Minister Trevor Sargent is seeking disclosure of all letters relating to the case.

The HSE has said a lack of resources led to "significant failings" in the way children in foster care were looked after.

A man appealing his conviction for an assault that was at the centre of a dispute, which triggered the resignation of former Junior Minister Trevor Sargent, had his case adjourned again today.

A man appealing his conviction for an assault that was at the centre of a dispute which ultimately led to the resignation of former Junior Minister Trevor Sargent has had his case adjourned again today.

A man at the centre of the row that triggered Trevor Sargent's resignation as a junior minister has appeared at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS Minister Micheál Martin has described reports his party leaked information that led to Trevor Sargent’s resignation as “offensive” and a move by the opposition to destabilise the Government.

THE Garda Ombudsman confirmed it has received a complaint from a member of the public in relation to the case highlighted by former Green minister of state Trevor Sargent.

GREEN leader John Gormley has pointedly refused to rule out a Fianna Fáil dirty tricks campaign for causing Trevor Sargent’s resignation as a junior minister.

DEPARTED junior minister Trevor Sargent tried to tell a garda who should be interviewed as part of a criminal inquiry into a fight between neighbours.

CHANGES were made to the internal report into the death during childbirth of Garda Tania McCabe and her baby at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital two years ago after the manager of the HSE’s acute hospitals in the North East said he had “issues” with “nuances” in it.

THE HSE has closed ranks even tighter following the disclosure by a Dáil TD this week that two more misdiagnoses had been confirmed in the northeast where reviews of 6,000 chest X-rays and 70 CT scans are underway.