Former CRC boss Paul Kiely deliberately misled the public accounts committee over a claimed “phantom” €666,000 Mater pension fund.

The Central Remedial Clinic has failed to clarify if the senior officials who resigned from the scandal-hit group last night received lavish lump sum retirement packages secretly funded by charitable donations.

The Public Accounts Committee is to seek to compel former CEO of the Central Remedial Clinic Brian Conlan to appear before them to answer questions about the top ups controversy.

The CRC lied to the HSE by claiming its chief executive’s salary was in compliance with pay scales in July when in reality it included €40,000-worth of charity-funded top-ups.

The Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) is insisting it came to an agreement with the Health Service Executive (HSE) in 2009 to allow for the top-up of some salaries.

Representatives from the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) will today take questions from TDs on private salary top-ups.

The Central Remedial Clinic could be hauled before the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as soon as next week to give a detailed response to serious concerns over its use of millions of euro worth of charitable donations.

The voluntary hospitals top-up pay scandal is damaging news for both the sector and patients dependent on it.

Management at the Mater Hospital have welcomed the Government decision to locate the new National Paediatric Hospital on the Mater site at Eccles Street in Dublin.

A DUBLIN hospital has reversed a controversial decision to postpone a cancer drug trial it deferred because patient information leaflets contained wording at odds with its Catholic ethos.