Former Console staff have not received unpaid wages, TDs told

Former workers for scandal-hit suicide prevention charity Console are being forced to borrow money to pay family bills as the State has failed to pay them three months wages owed to them by the group.

The workers remain at the “bottom of the list” of creditors owed money, nine months after a financial irregularities scandal was uncovered, a letter to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee revealed.

Last summer, Console was thrown into turmoil after a HSE internal audit uncovered serious financial irregularities linked directly to then chief executive Paul Kelly.