Drumm defends €15m spent on outside consultants

HEALTH Service Executive boss Brendan Drumm yesterday defended the €15 million spent on outside consultants last year, saying it was just a fraction of the authority’s budget.

Prof Drumm said the money spent on consultants represented just 0.1% of the total €15 billion spent by the HSE last year.

“I think to find an agency anywhere in the world in any area of work that spent just 0.1% on consultants would be an incredible achievement,” he said.