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

The Government’s spending watchdog has demanded more than an apology from the former chiefs of scandal-struck Central Remedial Clinic (CRC).

Central Remedial Clinic officials will not be allowed to “walk off into the sunset” and will be forced to face the consequences of the top-ups scandal engulfing the group.

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 board of the Central Remedial Clinic has resigned today.

THE founder of the Blackrock Clinic is behind a consortium planning to build a multi-million euro private hospital in Cork.