‘Serious questions’ over O’Brien top-up — Kelleher

By Catherine Reilly. Serious questions remain about how a senior HSE official could have been paid a salary top-up for a job he had already left, Fianna Fáil’s health spokesperson Billy Kelleher TD told the Dáil on December 10. A “full statement of clarification” was required from HSE Director General Tony O’Brien and Minister for Health Dr James Reilly following reports that O’Brien received a salary top-up for extra work he took on at the National Cancer Screening Service which continued when he was no longer in that role and was instead a senior manager with the HSE, said Kelleher.…