HSE ‘would be easier to run’ without child care

THE head of the Health Service Executive (HSE) has indicated that the organisation would be easier to run if a separate body was tasked with looking after services for children in care.

In a wide-ranging interview in today’s Irish Examiner, Professor Brendan Drumm said the “breadth of responsibility” shouldered by the HSE was enormous and it would be easier to run “if areas like child care were elsewhere”.

However, he said the decision to separate functions was not one he could make at this stage.