CUH employee was overpaid by €416k over nine years

The employee, who still works at CUH, was paid €416,353 – roughly €46,000 per annum above their contracted salary. To date, none of the €416,000 has been repaid

Cork University Hospital. Picture: Dan Linehan

A single HSE employee in its Cork-Kerry section was overpaid by €416,000 across nine years, due to Cork University Hospital (CUH) setting the worker up “on the wrong point of scale”.

The employee, who still works at CUH, was paid €416,353 — roughly €46,000 per annum above their contracted salary — between July 2010 and May 2019, when the overpayment was discovered, according to a HSE internal audit report on payroll errors.