HSE chief leads way with expense claims cuts

FROM business-class flights, lavish meals and chauffeur-driven journeys to Ryanair, no hotels and just two internal trips in six months — cutbacks, it seems, are even happening at the top of the health service.

HSE chief leads way with  expense claims cuts

New HSE chief executive Cathal Magee has not submitted any personal expense claims and has accrued the equivalent of just €2 a day in work-related costs since taking up the post last September.

Figures obtained by the Irish Examiner show Prof Brendan Drumm’s replacement has drastically reduced the add-on expenditure for his €322,000-a-year role.

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