Unnecessary nights in hotels and payments for business class flights for a consultant were discovered during an audit of expenses at one of the country’s busiest hospitals.
An internal audit at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) in Dublin also found excessive mileage claims and that some staff had been paid emergency call-out payments without being taxed properly.
The review of staff expenses said they had found one case where a hospital consultant had flights reimbursed at business class rates on three separate occasions for medical training abroad.
