Nua Healthcare Services, Talbot Group, Resilience Healthcare, GAIRO, and Orchard Community Care account for 58 per cent of HSE expenditure on the roughly 220 companies providing such private care.

A child has been on a waiting list for psychological care for 13.5 years, according to new figures.

In late October, heavy rainfall arising out of Storm Babet led to the flooding of houses in the east Cork town