HSE lacking in details on ill health retirement plans

Of the 23 cases examined, no occupational health information was held for 12 of them on the employee’s pension file.

The HSE holds no information in more than 50% of cases on what grounds its employees have been granted early retirement due to ill health, according to an audit of sample cases.

The internal audit report, compiled in December of last year and seen by the Irish Examiner, dealt with 23 sample cases selected at random from the 309 HSE workers who took early retirement due to illness in 2021.