HSE to recover top-up pay if ban is flouted

The HSE will claw back funds from any hospital or health agency which continues to flout a ban on top-up payments to senior officials.

HSE director general Tony O’Brien, confirmed the move at the latest Dáil Public Accounts Committee hearing, and revealed the arrangement has been ongoing since 1995.

Mr O’Brien told the cross-party group that, “at the moment”, the voluntary hospitals and agencies involved are still being funded.