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Aaron Rogan

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Aaron Rogan is a news correspondent.

Reid told Watt to retract ‘unwarranted slurs’ on HSE following health tape revelations

The soon-to-depart HSE boss warned its secretary general that the ‘disparaging and damaging manner’ in which his staff were referred to on a whistleblower’s recordings had caused bad feeling within the organisation

Independent audit finds non-compliance exposing HSE to ‘material risk’

The health service’s handling of its €21 billion budget last year has caused concern for the Departments of Health and Public Expenditure in recent months

Donnelly confirms €71m in HSE budget was ‘not able to be validated’

Replying to a parliamentary question, the Minister for Health confirmed the issue necessitated a prior-year adjustment to the state body’s finances, chiming with concerns raised in reports on secret tape recordings

HSE review finds over 7% of sample expenditure was unjustified

The errors uncovered in the HSE’s financial accounts will require a prior year adjustment, which is a rare amendment to past accounts

Addiction has become a ‘toxic’ issue for gambling industry, says Paddy Power

The public face of the bookmaking giant went on to say that reputational problems had made being in the industry less ‘fun’

Former Facebook moderator to publish book about his experiences

Chris Gray, who was a contractor for CPL in Ireland, has been a vociferous critic of how Facebook treats the moderators that it hires to screen graphic content

Department suspends Health Tapes whistleblower as investigation looms

Shane Corr submitted several disclosures to the Public Accounts Committee in recent months after making recordings of department meetings

Shifting sands: How a wave of sportswashing is changing the world

From elite-level golf to the 2022 World Cup finals, Middle Eastern oil money is altering the parameters of global sport like never before, despite the best efforts of activists to draw attention to the often brutal realities behind the curtain. Will the sheer weight of cash be sufficient to fool enough of the people, all of the time?

The Big Interview

The Big Interview: ‘You can have the best team, tech and idea, but if the timing isn’t right, it will fail’ - Dave Walsh of Mathison

When Dave Walsh was let go by recruitment platform Indeed over a visa issue, he found himself faced with a 30-day deadline to stay in the US – but quickly turned the situation to his advantage

Dept of Health reviewing HSE’s business case for relocation of NMH

The move cannot proceed without an approved business plan that is agreed to by Stephen Donnelly’s department and subject to an external assurance process

Workday to encourage Grangegorman campus staff to support local businesses

The human resources software giant will have almost 3,000 employees working at its new European headquarters Dublin 7

Twitter takeover: Can we trust Elon Musk with the ‘closest thing we have to a global consciousness’?

If the tycoon sets the social media platform on an anything-goes path of free speech absolutism, he will quickly run up against stringent new European laws which were agreed last weekend

Meta to mount awareness campaign amid fears over smart glasses

There are concerns over the ability of wearers of the RayBan-Stories to film people without their knowledge

McGrath questioned Donnelly over HSE governance after health tapes revelations

The Minister of Public Expenditure sought clarity from the Minister for Health regarding his department’s management of the HSE’s finances, in the wake of a Business Post investigation

Watt’s €20m ‘letter of comfort’ raises hard questions

The fact that the secretary-general at the Department of Health committed to spending €2 million per year of department money on Tony Holohan’s Trinity appointment without informing the minister will lead to more controversy

Controversy forces Holohan to pull out of planned new role at Trinity

The controversial secondment of the chief medical officer to a post at Trinity College Dublin had already been paused by Taoiseach Micheál Martin this weekend

Health tapes: Watt advised officials to take ‘minimalist approach’ to Sláintecare reforms

The secretary general of the Department of Health also warned of ‘endless claims’ from unions

Health Tapes: ‘Big lumps of money sloshing around’ – Robert Watt outlines his concerns over spending at HSE

At a top-level meeting held last January, which the Business Post has obtained a recording of, civil service heavyweight Robert Watt laid out his position on Sláintecare, the health service’s finances and dealing with public sector unions

New gambling law won’t require bookies to check customers are betting within their means

Affordability checks on customers who lose more than a certain sum each month are being considered in Britain but will not be part of the Irish legislation, says Fianna Fáil minister James Browne

Privacy watchdog awaits Facebook’s next move after EU-US data transfer deal

The deal struck between the US and EU on international data transfers is likely to see the Data Protection Commissioner receive submissions to its ongoing inquiry into Facebook