Former CHI chief kept €177k salary after taking up new role 

CHI faces public scrutiny after settling with ex-CEO — Eilish Hardiman — to retain her €177k salary and losing €250k in claims.

Children's Health Ireland's Eilish Hardiman. File picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), the body which manages the country’s children’s hospitals, came to a "settlement" with its former CEO for her to keep her €177,000 salary when taking over a new strategic role.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) heard on Thursday that Eilish Hardiman continues to be paid her salary in her new role as strategic programme director at CHI after former health minister Stephen Donnelly declined to approve her retention for a third term as chief executive.