WRC recommends €215k payout to top HSE official in unpaid 'acting up' allowances

The Workplace Relations Commission has recommended that the HSE pay an assistant national director in public health over €215,000 in unpaid allowances over a four-and-a-half year period. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

A State workplace watchdog has recommended that the HSE pay an assistant national director in public health over €215,000 in unpaid allowances over a four-and-a-half year period.

In the case, Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) adjudication officer, Hugh Lonsdale, has recommended that the HSE pay the assistant national director the estimated €215,000 for performing the role of national director for public health between May 2016 and July 2019 and for continuing to take on additional responsibilities since then.