The Irish Mirror has learned through the Freedom of Information Act the car at the centre of a controversy earlier this year has been reclaimed by the HSE to sell on.
We also confirmed the €426k-a-year health service boss was the only employee of 100,000 in the HSE given the perk of a free car - on which Reid paid benefit in kind of €17,298 in 2020. from his home in Leitrim to Dublin for work at the HSE in a BMW X1 jeep. A spokesman for the HSE has said the BMW 530d X-Drive SE company car will now be sold and that no decision on whether another company car will be provided for any new boss has been made.A spokesman for the HSE was asked for comment again last night and she said: “I can confirm that the details of the FOI are correct.” Get breaking news to your inbox by signing up to our newsletter