Man hired to slash HSE wages gets €1m contract

THE salary for the man hired to slash the Health Service Executive’s wage bill will make him the highest-paid administrator in the organisation apart from chief executive Brendan Drumm.

The director of human resources, Sean McGrath, will be paid €205,000 plus perks when he takes up his post with the HSE.

It is worth more than €1m over the lifetime of the contract and is €46,000 more than the salary a specialist civil service review panel recommended for the job.