HSE staff should not be paid any expenses

FINE Gael health spokesperson Dr James O’Reilly said recently that HSE staff expenses will have to be cut.

As the HSE is said to have handed out €292 million on such expenses since 2005, a mere cut will have little effect, particularly as this figure does not even include HSE bonuses.

I would go further than Dr O’Reilly in proposing that all HSE staff should not be paid any travel costs and other expenses.