Revealed: HSE paid five private, for-profit firms over €300m for disability services in 2025

The figures show that the HSE spent 58% of its expenditure on commercial companies, or just 2% of the agencies in question. File picture

The HSE paid at least €306m to just five private, for-profit companies for the provision of disability services in 2025, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

That figure forms part of a wider €526m spent on roughly 220 companies providing such private care for people living with disabilities in the same year.