Department of Health paid €700k to external consultants
Fianna Fáil has criticised the level of expenditure, claiming the work could have been done within the department, which paid a total of €704,804 to outside organisations in 2016.
Included in this was was a €55,081 bill to Milliman for actuarial, accounting, insurance, and economic advice services; a further €44,785 was paid to Prospectus Consultants for what was described as “trauma policy communications”, while Alpha Healthcare received €46,806 for undertaking two separate projects.
