It’s not just Bertie’s buddies who’ve survived to enjoy very lavish salaries

THE scandal at the Central Remedial Clinic is a gift to the Government. Here we have an organisation seemingly plundering charitable funds, to feather the nests of a group of Fianna Fáil insiders, all of whom can be linked easily to former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

The HSE, under this Government’s control can be seen to have acted against what it found; the HSE under the previous government is fighting allegations that it endorsed what went on.

There is no other way to describe it as other than a scandal. The secret use of money for salaries and pensions by a charity that donors believed would be used for the benefit of those who need medical assistance cannot be excused in any circumstances. The use of it in such large quantities increases the scale of this scandal.