Console takeover delayed as counsellors fear they will not be paid

Plans to allow crisis-hit suicide-prevention charity Console to be taken over by a rival group are being delayed due to concerns the group’s counsellors will not be paid money still owed to them by former chief executive Paul Kelly, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Political Reporter.

It is understood the issue is one of a number of points which have failed to be clarified by either the charity, the Department of Health, or the HSE despite intense negotiations on transferring the services to Pieta House in recent days.