At least five global trips taken by one senior manager

The Central Remedial Clinic has been “extremely generous in the way it sends people around the globe to attend conferences”, Independent TD Shane Ross told the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

He provided details of at least five trips undertaken by one senior manager to locations including Florida, Buenos Aires, New Delhi and Vancouver at the expense of the disability agency. Mr Ross also questioned the recently retired chief executive of the CRC, Brian Conlon, about a scheme run by the CRC called the European Seating Symposium (ESS) — that invited people to part take in “study days” across Europe.