HSE spends nearly €9m on management consultants in three months

HSE CEO Bernard Gloster has said the overall figure for all HSE payments for private management consultancy was in the region of €120m to €180m last year. File picture

The HSE spent at least €8.8m on private management consultants in the first three months of this year, despite hiring more than 5,000 managers internally, new documents show.

The spending has been criticized as “laziness” by opposition politicians who have called for an urgent review of how procurement processes are applied to these rapidly rising costs.