More CRC charity funds may have been used to top up pension, TDs told

The Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee is to examine whether charity donations to the Central Remedial Clinic were dipped into to a greater extent than previously thought to top up the pension of the former chief executive, Paul Kiely.

HSE chief Tony O’Brien wrote to the committee last night ahead of the resumption of its examination of the issue today.

Mr O’Brien said he has been alerted to a “significant issue” relating to the lump sum payment and pension awarded to Mr Kiely which he said is “considerably at variance” with what the committee was lead to believe in the past.