Hospital spent €1.8m on deals that broke transparency rules, says review

A major hospital gave out €1.8m in taxpayers’ money to outside firms in deals which broke transparency rules and failed to follow strict competition laws.

An external review into the payments, obtained by irishhealth.com, confirmed initial Health Information Quality Authority (Hiqa) concerns from May.

This initial report also revealed that a handful of senior officials in the same facility received €739,000 in unofficial “top-up” deals between 2005 and 2010.