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

Ex-Rehab CEO and long-time Fine Gael adviser Frank Flannery ignored calls to appear before the Dáil’s public accounts committee last Thursday because he was having lunch with a senior Government minister.

Over 400 business and professional people have registered with an online volunteer register in the last year, offering their business skills and expertise to the boards of community and voluntary (nonprofit) organisations.

CRUCIAL business expertise and acumen is to be made available free of charge to the voluntary sector through the Boardmatch initiative launched yesterday by the Secretary General at the Department of An Taoiseach, Dermot McCarthy.