HSE bails out hospital charity as accounts empty

THE HSE has been forced to bail out a major hospital charity with taxpayers’ money.

The Irish Examiner has established that the Cork University Hospital (CUH) Foundation received the state funding because accounts ring-fenced for projects specifically linked to donated finances were empty. The foundation is the subject of an ongoing yearlong HSE internal audit.

In one specific case, a now-built paediatrics garden at CUH which was meant to be funded by a €60,000 donation from Boston Scientific, received €21,368 in taxpayers’ money.