HSE-funded charities flout pay level rules

At least 15 HSE-funded charities are continuing to flout strict pay level rules imposed for 320 individuals after the Central Remedial Clinic and Rehab financial scandals.

Senior HSE officials revealed the situation yesterday as they admitted they could not “guarantee” all groups are clear of spending scandals and warned that last year’s Console crisis was “the poster-boy of everything that could go wrong” when spending gets out of control.

HSE national director of human resources Rosarii Mannion told the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee that there are a number of cases where pay restrictions are still being breached — they range “from the very minor to very serious”.