HSE pays out €105,000 after wrongly charging for incontinence wear

Politicians have called for an urgent investigation into hidden nursing-home fees. It has emerged that the HSE has been forced to pay out €105,000 to six families whose relatives were wrongly charged, for over a decade, for incontinence wear.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee demanded the move after claiming that the HSE had to be “dragged kicking and screaming” into admitting the compensation payments, linked to a religious-run nursing home.