HSE staff overpaid by €5m in error

THE HSE overpaid staff by more than €5 million last year as a direct result of salary system errors and needed to contact those who initially refused to pay it back through solicitors.

Official figures show that by the end of December health service workers had received €5.043m more in their pay packets than expected.

The overpayments issue means just under €10m has been accidentally paid to doctors, nurses and administrative staff since the start of 2009.