Enda Kenny: HSE staff must repay any misspent cash

Any money misspent by HSE staff must be repaid to the State, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted.

The rebuke follows a damning report by the Comptroller & Auditor General which listed lavish spending on luxury hotels by the HSE.

The State’s financial watchdog revealed that €500 a night was spent on a Milan hotel, with €300 a night paid for Dublin’s upmarket Merrion Hotel at a time when the health service is facing a funding crisis.