CRC pays €660k for administration of non-existent fund

It has emerged that the Central Remedial Clinic pays over half a million euro each year to the Mater Hospital to administer a pension fund that does not exist.

Scandal-struck Central Remedial Clinic chiefs have been paying millions of euro to the Mater Hospital in a mystery deal to administer a fund that does not exist, a parliamentary hearing has been told.

In bizarre revelations described as “bonkers”, the disability clinic’s former chief executive Paul Kiely said he tried to break the payments a number of times but was warned to stay away from it.