Ex-CRC boss’s payoff was same as 2013 losses

Ex-Central Remedial Clinic boss Paul Kiely has again been urged to give back his controversial €740,000 severance package pay-out, after the charity suffered a loss of almost exactly the same amount last year.

The plea has been made by Independent TD Shane Ross after an updated report from the now re-formed charity — which was at the centre of a highly damaging crisis over how donated money was being used — revealed that the CRC was in the red by €741,025 in 2013.

Documents provided to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee by new CRC chairman, Kieran Timmins, show the vital disability charity suffered a loss of €741,025 in its accounts last year.