Pay scandal at CRC - Principle and society betrayed

The escalating scandal around top-up payments at the Central Remedial Clinic ticks nearly all the boxes needed to define it as the perfect Celtic Tiger/Fianna Fáil rotten can of worms.

It reeks of the aggressive greed that has done so much to undermine Irish people’s capacity to belive that this is, or might ever be, a fair, decent, and honourable society.

Government pay limits were blithely ignored as if they applied to other people, to other classes of workers, but not to CRC executives. Money generously donated was, in the secrecy of the boardroom, hijacked to fatten the already enviable salaries or pensions of a cabal that secured its position through political influence once wielded by a now disgraced, dysfunctional regime.