HSE paid €12m to recruitment firms in two years

HSE paid €12m to recruitment firms in two years

Just 7,000 of the 73,000 who answered the 'Be on Call for Ireland' initiative were ever contacted, yet the HSE paid €12m to recruitment firms between 2020 and 2021. Picture: David Keane.

Mon, 18 Apr, 2022 - 12:30
Darragh Bermingham

The Health Service Executive paid out more than €12m to recruitment firms in 2021 and 2020, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

Information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act revealed that the HSE spent around €2.7m on recruitment firms' hiring services  in 2020.

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