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The HSE Has Paid €94 Million In Retirement Lump-Sums To Staff.

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The highest 25 amounts were all over €211,000

Two HSE consultants have received retirement lump sums of over €400,000  this year.

A further 11 got at least €300,000, according to freedom of information documents.

Eoghan Murphy reports:

In the first nine months of this year, the HSE paid out retirement lump sums totaling nearly €94 million to its staff.

The highest 25 amounts were all over €211,000 - and 24 were consultants.

The highest amount was nearly €420,000, which was paid to a radiologist.

And a psychiatrist got nearly €409,000.

Beaumont Hospital consultant, Bill Tormey, says it's over-the-top

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