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.

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.