The Central Remedial Clinic was far more concerned with saving face than it was with saving money.

The Central Remedial Clinic is to cut its CEO’s salary by two thirds as part of sweeping changes.

Details have been announced of a new chief executive and board of governors at the Central Remedial Clinic.

The HSE has hired external recruiters to find new board members for the Central Remedial Clinic.

Some of the country’s leading charities claim donations have fallen by as much as 40% because of public fears about where the money might end up as a result of the top-up scandal at Central Remedial Clinic.

I would like to highlight that recent media revelations relating to travel expenses do not apply to me.

It is disappointing that it has taken the ongoing CRC scandal to finally create the political will to appoint a charity regulator.

As the scandals unfold at the Central Remedial Clinic, and other top payments that look more like grand larceny, we learn that a 79-year-old Aosdána member and long-time human rights activist Margaretta Darcy has been jailed in Limerick prison for protesting against the use of Shannon airport by torturers, human rights abusers and US war criminals.

Two sets of important negotiations are running in parallel. One — hopefully — to end a process, the other — hopefully — to prevent a civil war or something as catastrophic breaking out on the fringes of Europe.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said the Public Accounts Committee was given a "litany of facts that were not the truth" in relation to the Central Remedial Clinic.

Minister Brendan Howlin has said the Public Accounts Committee should compel any Central Remedial Clinic board members to appear and answer further questions from TDs and Senators - even if they refuse.

Furious CRC families have insisted axed chief executive Paul Kiely must hand back all charity money diverted to pay his lucrative pension packet.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee chairman, John McGuinness, will today contact the interim administrator at the scandal-hit Central Remedial Clinic, as he seeks all files relevant to the €740,000 pension payoff for its former CEO.

DEAR Minister Shatter,

Former board members at the Central Remedial Clinic are to be recalled for further questioning by the Public Accounts Committee.

The decision to award former Central Remedial Clinic chief Paul Kiely a €742,025 pension payoff was based on legal expertise from within the CRC board, with no evidence outside advice was taken.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has added his voice to those calling for the former chief executive of Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) to pay back his €742,000 pension pay-off.

The former chairman of the Central Remedial Clinic says he needed to agree to the controversial pay-off to Paul Kiely to save the organisation around €1.4m.

The HSE is to carry out a trawl of bank statements at the Central Remedial Clinic as part of its efforts to pursue “to the bitter end” issues at the disability service.

Health Minister James Reilly has pledged the Government will use all available options to seek the return of former CRC chief Paul Kiely’s €740,000 secret payoff, including the gardaí, corporate enforcement and the civil courts.

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Parents “disgusted” at the deepening CRC crisis have challenged the group’s disgraced former board to explain their actions to people dependent on the service.

When double Paralympian swimmer and London 2012 gold medal winner Darragh McDonald talks about standards, it is time to take notice.

The choreography of an Irish scandal is well established. The draw-the-sting, smoke-and-daggers shuffle-and-dodge is predictable and all too well rehearsed. The lineage is pretty constant and unfortunately equally predictable.

Paul Kiely is a man who got around. He was a very busy bee in the charity and voluntary sector. Chief executive of this company; secretary of another; and board member of a third — all of which were interlinked. A man like that could do with a rest after his strenuous efforts, and what better way to kick back than with an obscene pension.