HSE top earner received nearly €1m last year as former chief was paid €400,000

The highest wage of between €970,000 and €980,000 is believed to have been paid to a hospital advisor and included again cash and allowances. One other advisor earned between €710,001 and €720,000.

The HSE’s annual report additionally confirmed that former chief government Paul Reid, who stepped down final December, earned €399,182. This comprised primary pay of €339,549, allowances of €45,838 and profit in sort of €13,795. The report stated the profit in sort quantity associated to the availability of a automotive.

Mr Reid was not a member of the HSE pension scheme, and no employer pension contributions have been made by the HSE on his behalf.

As a consequence, he obtained an equal pension allowance, the report added. He obtained €4,420 in bills.

Chief monetary officer Stephen Mulvany, who’s on a wage of round €190,000, obtained a €90,000 allowance for appearing as interim chief government till Bernard Gloster took over in March.

The numbers of workers incomes greater than €100,000 on the HSE elevated by 808 from 3,982 to 4,790 final 12 months.

The report confirmed 352 workers earned between €250,000 and €500,000 and a pair of,594 staff earned between €100,000 and €150,000.

It additionally revealed that €94.4m value of out of date Covid-19 vaccines needed to be dumped.

Many of those have been shares that have been outdated on the finish of December.

Additionally they included jabs which can be on account of be outdated quickly or are not thought-about to have usefulness within the vaccination programme.

The €94.4m of dumped vaccines included €33.7m in expired inventory. These doses had handed the producer’s expiry date and have been not appropriate for administration; €60.7m was included within the total sum for inventory that is because of expire.

Of this, there was a provision of €47.9m for unique formulation vaccine shares – held in reserve final 12 months as a contingency within the occasion of an emergency that didn’t come up – that have been on account of expire within the first quarter of this 12 months and are not thought-about be appropriate.

It’s because the newer bivalent vaccines can now be used for major dose vaccination.

One other €12.8m was supplied for on account of tailored vaccines which can be nearing expiration.

These particular vaccines have been procured “in danger” earlier than authorisation, as Eire’s share of the joint-EU procurement preparations operated by the European Fee on behalf of the 27 member states.

Covid continued to take a heavy monetary toll on the HSE final 12 months, with the invoice for Private Safety Tools totalling €146m.

Different Covid-related prices included the roll out of the vaccination programme at €425m and the pandemic recognition cost to well being staff, which reached €208m final 12 months.

The HSE ended up €185.16m within the purple.