Positive Action director ran up €34k taxi bill

A HSE audit of the Hepatitis C support group Positive Action, which was wound up earlier this year, has identified "inappropriate" and extravagant expenditure using taxpayers’ money on the likes of relaxation weekends, gifts and even the cost of dog kennels.

The internal audit also confirms serious breaches of corporate governance at Positive Action which was set up in 1994 to support women who contracted hepatitis C after receiving contaminated anti-D human immunoglobulin from the Blood Transfusion Service Board.

According to RTÉ, which obtained a copy of the audit report, “the organisation had non-existent controls over the expenditure of public funds, there was significant extravagance, irregularities and resistance by directors to being accountable”.