Top-up revelations a repeat of Tallaght findings

The voluntary hospitals top-up pay scandal is damaging news for both the sector and patients dependent on it.

But this is not the first time this type of crisis has emerged.

At the start of this year, two internal inquiries into practices at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin found a “parallel executive payroll” existed for some of the facility’s most high-ranking officials between 2005 and 2010.