Overpayments to HSE staff revealed by audit

Dozens of examples of bad practice flagged by probe of expenses paid to community healthcare staff.

An audit of expenses paid to HSE staff providing community healthcare services in parts of Dublin, Kildare, and Wicklow has flagged dozens of examples of bad practice and overpayments.

The probe found instances where an employee claimed more than four times the mileage expenses for the distance they had travelled, were paid expenses for their parking at work, and entered kilometre figures instead of mileage, and an example where three subsistence allowances were claimed by one employee for a colleague.