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# hse overspend

This year

2023

HSE CEO 'doesn't accept' he was too late in approach to private hospitals on winter beds

Gloster said it isn’t the case that he ‘just picked up the phone and asked for a couple of beds’.

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Sep 27th 2023, 3:51 PM

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Leo wanted the HSE to save money by re-using crutches, but was told it was a non-runner

The Taoiseach said the government will be looking with ‘laser-like detail’ at how to get value for money in the health service.

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Jul 15th 2018, 4:00 PM