health

€350m HSE surplus from under-recruitment will fund Covid costs and pay restoration

The HSE’s 10,000-staff recruitment target became the subject of controversy in February, when the Business Post revealed that an official in the department had called it ‘batshit’ in an internal meeting

Robert Watt, the secretary general at the Department of Health, said an ‘immediate response’ was needed to scale up HSE staffing. Picture: Collins