HSE boss paid €512,000 despite crippling cutbacks

HEALTH Service Executive (HSE) chief executive Professor Brendan Drumm earned more than €500,000 last year at a time when vital frontline services were hit with a series of crippling cutbacks not witnessed in more than two decades.

On page 87 of the HSE’s annual report for 2008, published yesterday, it states that Prof Drumm’s total pay packet last year amounted to a massive €512,000.

This figure – which includes the former consultant paediatrician’s basic salary, pension and other work-related payments – is €18,000 higher than his overall income for 2007.