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