HSE expense bill for 2008 hits €81m

MANAGEMENT and administrative staff dominated the list of top earners in the Health Service Executive’s €81 million expenses regime.

In 2008, the top 30 claimants for travel expenses together took home €626,114, with half of these working in office jobs.

This group claimed 28 times the average annual expense payments of the other 111,000 people working for the HSE in 2008.