An application by the State’s corporate watchdog to examine material on computers taken from the suicide counselling charity Console has been further adjourned at the High Court.

The decision to re-open Stepaside Garda Station has been branded “Del Boy politics” by a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which has criticised the move.

The government has demanded former Console bosses repay €150,000 in grants given to the charity.

Fresh Garda documents sent to the Public Accounts Committee reveal deep divisions among senior civil servants within An Garda Síochána.

The Department of Health has washed its hands of the failure to pay three months’ wages to workers who stayed at suicide-prevention charity Console after it was hit by a financial scandal, saying it has “no role” in the dispute.

Former workers for scandal-hit suicide prevention charity Console are being forced to borrow money to pay family bills as the State has failed to pay them three months wages owed to them by the group.

Disgraced former CEO of suicide prevention charity Console Paul Kelly has moved to set up a company to support people in crisis.

A national taskforce needs to be set up to look at the prescribing of barbiturates as they continue to be used as the most common type of intentional overdose, a conference on suicidology was told.

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Suicide charity Pieta House is taking over services previously operated by Console in a deal finalised yesterday to ensure minimum disruption to clients.

The likely liquidation of scandal-hit suicide bereavement organisation Console and transfer of its services were being discussed by the board late last night.

Senior charity bosses will be forced to pay back lucrative salary top-ups as part of a government crackdown.

The High Court has continued orders freezing the assets of the Console charity for a further week.

Plans to allow crisis-hit suicide-prevention charity Console to be taken over by a rival group are being delayed due to concerns the group’s counsellors will not be paid money still owed to them by former chief executive Paul Kelly.

The Department of Health has come under pressure after it emerged the former CEO of Console was brought in for questioning five years ago regarding his stint posing as a fake doctor in the early 1980s.

Leading depression charities are expected to take over Console’s services this weekend, despite legal technicalities meaning the plan could not be signed off on last night.

Crisis-hit suicide charity Console will be wound up within days after it was decided it cannot continue to operate due to the financial scandal engulfing the organisation.

Health Minister Simon Harris, senior HSE officials, and Console’s interim CEO David Hall are contacting a series of high-profile suicide prevention and depression charities in a bid to convince them to take on Console’s frontline services.

IN the circumstances, and without prejudging any subsequent events, the decision to close the suicide prevention charity Console seems to be the right one. 

Revenue officials are to begin an emergency examination of suicide prevention charity Console’s accounts within days, the Irish Examiner has learned.

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Officials have been poring over files and documents placed in a secret storage unit by the former Console chief executive Paul Kelly after a court order allowed David Hall, interim CEO at the charity, to break the lock and seize them.

The former minister for mental health, Kathleen Lynch, was aware that embattled charity Console was being audited by the HSE but said her main concern was that its counselling was not in question.

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The Dáil’s public accounts watchdog has said it will investigate the controversy surrounding Console as well as top-up payments made at the Saint John of God Order.

The People of the Year committee has written to embattled former Console head, Paul Kelly demanding he return his award as calls grow for the Government to urgently grant the charity regulator investigative powers.

Serious questions have arisen around transactions between the suicide bereavement charity Console and its UK-based sister organisation as more properties and bank accounts have come to light, the High Court has heard.

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The charities regulator was not aware of any concerns around the operation of the suicide bereavement charity Console until they were aired last week.

Three of the remaining directors of beleaguered suicide bereavement charity Console did not even know they were directors.

The charities regulator said laws giving it investigative powers must be enacted immediately.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has defended the HSE’s continued funding of national suicide charity Console despite being aware of irregularities for many years.

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The charities regulator does not have the legal power to carry out statutory investigations of charities — as a section of the legislation has yet to be enacted.

DAVID HALL, the external examiner appointed to look into finances and governance at the charity Console, has said that malpractice highlighted by RTÉ will never happen again.

Former Console boss Paul Kelly and his wife and son spent almost €500,000 on designer clothes, foreign trips, groceries, and other expenses between 2012 and 2014, an RTÉ investigation has claimed.

The HSE audit into the suicide charity Console found there were “serious governance concerns”, revealing widespread failings in proper standards in management.

There has not been a decline in demand for Console’s services following last Thursday’s Prime Time exposé on the charity’s financial affairs.

Gardaí are considering if concerns raised in relation to suicide prevention charity Console merit a criminal investigation.