PAC to investigate Console

The Dáil’s public accounts watchdog has said it will investigate the controversy surrounding Console as well as top-up payments made at the Saint John of God Order.

Newly-appointed Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Seán Fleming made the pledge as Minister for Health, Simon Harris, described a HSE audit of Console as “disgusting and disturbing”.

The revelations regarding Console, which centre on its former chief executive Paul Kelly, has also increased scrutiny on the HSE, which administered much of the funding to the suicide charity.