Culture of secrecy revealed by report into CRC

A report into the Central Remedial Clinic has revealed a determination to keep information from the HSE and the public on its funding streams and its chief executive’s pay packet.

When the body eventually recognised that it would have to disclose its CEO’s €233,000 salary, it decided to terminate his employment as part of a €2m savings plan of which he was the main beneficiary.

Interim administrator appointed to the CRC John Cregan said the clinic was far more concerned with the publicity surrounding its former CEO Paul Kiely’s pay than it was about the figures involved.