€155 bottle of whiskey put on charity CEO’s credit card

A damning internal audit of the Catholic Institute for Deaf People found numerous financial discrepancies as well as excessive spending on its credit cards, including a €155 bottle of whiskey.

€155 bottle of whiskey put on charity CEO’s credit card

The internal HSE audit, one of dozens released under the Freedom of Information Act, showed that between 2012 and 2015, “a significant amount of control was vested in the [then] COO/head of finance”, who was the highest paid employee at the charity and whose total remuneration package ranged from €106,600 (2012) to €161,740 (2015).

The remuneration of the then-CEO, at €123,000 at one point, “was in excess of HSE payscales”.

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