€40m rent bill as HSE sites lie vacant

More than 140 HSE properties around the country are lying idle at a time when the executive is paying €40m annually renting space.

Some of the properties have been empty for over a decade, including St Kevin’s Hospital, in Shanakiel, Cork City, a listed property which has been vacant since 2003.

Last year the HSE spent almost €7,000 on security at the site St Kevin’s shares with the former Our Lady’s Hospital complex.