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Sinn Féin local election candidate for the Piltown electoral area, Peadar de Bluit has responded to the revelations that HSE executive Brendan Drumm lobbied Health Minister Mary Harney for massive pay rises to attract senior executives from the private sector the sums paid out were “grotesque and driven by greed”.

Fears are growing this week that Westmeath might lose its Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit in Mullingar after HSE chief, Professor Brendan Drumm admitted during a visit to the hospital last week that the Midlands hasn't got the population to sustain three such units.

Or should it be one less for you, big bonus for me. It beggars belief that a time when frontline medical staff and services are being battered consistently by reduced budgets, the CEO of the Health Service Executive would be paid a handsome €70,000 bonus. While Professor Brendan Drumm hasn’t actually drawn down the lucrative bonus, nor has he sanctioned it himself, it has been approved by the board of the HSE and Health Minister Mary Harney.