HSE sacks eight for discipline breaches

EIGHT people were sacked by the Health Service Executive (HSE) last year for breaches of discipline.

The disclosure comes just weeks after the outgoing chief executive of the HSE, Prof Brendan Drumm, told an Oireachtas Committee that very few people had been disciplined within the HSE for speaking out about issues within the HSE.

He was responding to questions from the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, who queried what he called the “culture of silence” within the HSE.