HSE’s top HR chief set to take up role at UCC

A top HSE official, head of human resources Barry O’Brien, is to leave the organisation in the coming months, it was confirmed last night.

Mr O’Brien, a regular attendee at the Oireachtas health committee and a key negotiator in the Haddington Road talks, is understood to be taking up a role in the HR department of University College Cork.

He was one of a number of health service officials who travelled to the US on trips funded by the Siptu so-called slush fund which is being scrutinised by the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC).