A charity which awarded €1.64m in top-ups to senior staff has continued to defend them even with mounting political pressure for the money to be repaid.

The State has stepped in to fund a potentially life-changing operation that could help a little boy with cerebral palsy walk and live pain-free.

As the IFA’s emergency meeting took a badly needed break to recharge already frayed emotions, a copy of the Irish Farmers Journal left crumpled in the crowded foyer quietly spoke volumes, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin said that there needs to be greater transparency in pay for public servants.

Health managers who received controversial salary top-ups are set to keep them.

Jim Nugent, who famously gave a “dig-out” to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has had the €1.3m D4 apartment at Haseldene, Ballsbridge, handed back to a bank.

One of the country’s main groups for helping victims of sexual abuse has called the lack of services available “a national scandal” as it faces the prospect of not being able to accept new clients for up to four months amid mounting waiting lists for services.

It has taken over a year, but public trust is beginning to return to Ireland’s charity sector after it was badly hit by the top-ups and pay-offs scandal at the Central Remedial Clinic.

New research shows public trust could be slowly returning to the charity sector.

Charities have been "unfairly demonised" by the top-ups controversy, resulting in groups which have complied fully with all rules and regulations being effectively starved of funding.

The Central Remedial Clinic in Dublin has dropped its Santa Bear charity appeal.

Those at the centre of the scandals that so damaged the Central Remedial Clinic and Rehab can insist that they did nothing wrong, but the public perception is that executive pay and pensions at those government-supported charities were a pretty shabby example of snouts-in-the-trough greed.

Former chief executive of Rehab Frank Flannery is big on his rights. Responsibility, in the wake of the Rehab saga’s latest turn, is a matter for others, writes Michael Clifford

Up to 81 officials may have legal right to payment

The Health Service Executive says 81 of 143 people employed at organisations in receipt of taxpayers' money have made a legal case for breaching public pay policy.

"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" — Hamlet.

Former charity chiefs could be compelled to answer questions about spending state funds under proposals to beef up the investigative powers used by the Public Accounts Committee.

The ex-chairman of the crisis-hit Central Remedial Clinic has "apologised" for its charity top-ups scandal — but has insisted he and his colleagues have a "clear conscience" as they did nothing wrong.

One hundred senior health service managers are still topping up their high salaries with extra payments despite a HSE deadline passing to end the controversy.

It is been confirmed that the board of the Central Remedial Clinic was ordered to resign last December by the Health Service Executive or face cuts in funding.

Representatives from the Central Remedial Clinic, its former board and the Health Service Executive, will come before The Public Accounts Committee this morning.

Former members of the board of the Central Remedial Clinic, who were forced out over the charity top-ups scandal, have refused to turn up for a high-profile meeting on the issue.

Two Oireachtas committees are set to come to blows again over attempts to force ousted Rehab officials Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery to undergo a fresh grilling on how they spent taxpayers’ money.

The Health Minister says he is "very concerned" about the possibility of Irish victims of Jimmy Savile.

It has emerged that the former board of the Central Remedial Clinic has yet to confirm whether it will appear at the Public Accounts Committee next week.

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I’VE decided how I will vote in the Labour leadership elections. All these years a rank-and-file member, and now I have a say in who should lead my party.

The Government’s apparent disregard for the hardship caused to older people by austerity measures is "disturbing", Age Action said yesterday.

The Central Remedial Clinic has said it will deal with all outstanding issues raised in the report of its interim administrator — including chasing the overpayment made to a former chief executive.

A report into the Central Remedial Clinic has revealed a determination to keep information from the HSE and the public on its funding streams and its chief executive’s pay packet.

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

A report by the interim administrator into the Central Remedial Clinic has criticised the board of the organisation for rushing into a pay-off deal for retiring Chief Executive Paul Kiely.

Bóthar has made more than a third of its staff redundant after a sharp downturn in donations caused by the Rehab and Central Remedial Clinic controversies.

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.

A raft of legal challenges are anticipated after hospitals and healthcare providers were given three months to stop allowance and top-up payments being made to more than 140 senior managers.

The HSE has ordered hospitals and other groups to stop top-up payments to more than 130 people.

Angela Kerins can kick back and enjoy a generous pension after stepping down from Rehab, but those left behind must pick up the pieces, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.

St Vincent’s Hospital Group has created two chief executive posts in a bid to bring it into line with public pay policy.