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Updated 23.06pm
EDUCATION MINISTER RUAIRÍ Quinn has called on the board members of the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) to resign in the wake of revelations that some senior executives salaries were topped up through charitable donations made to the clinic.
His Labour colleague, Social Protection Minister Joan Burton has described the claims as “extremely disturbing” and said that the CRC needed to clarify its position in relation to fundraising.
“I am sure there is a huge amount of concern about the revelations, because charitable donations are not meant to fund lavish salaries, way in excess of what the Taoiseach of the country is earning,” she said at the Labour conference in Killarney tonight.
Earlier, Quinn told RTÉs Drivetime that disclosures of charitable funds being used for top-ups at a time when the CRC has been cutting services for children and adults with physical disabilities are “utterly unacceptable”.
He added:
Everyone in the public sector has had reductions of pay, and certainly there’s been a pay cap that voluntary organisations that receive substantial money from the taxpayer through the relevant government departments are not an exception to that rule.
He said that Ministers Brendan Howlin and Michael Noonan have made that “very clear”, adding that if the board refused to step down and payments of this kind continued, then there would be “consequential actions”.
Burton said that issues needed to be clarified and added: “I think they need to produce full accounting details and records and information in relation to it and where it’s inappropriate I would certainly hope to see them change or modify that.”
The ministers’ comments come just a day after Shane Ross TD called for the board’s resignation, stating they used the funds to “line the pockets of its top earners”.
Finian McGrath, whose constituency the CRC is in, told RTE’s Six One News that he was “appalled” and “gutted” adding: “We need a clean out of the board and directors”.
He said a fresh start is needed for the CRC if it is going to be saved from the negative publicity.
- additional reporting Hugh O’Connell
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The Chinese – a great bunch of lads
Well done
Pmsl… Ted comments always roll off the tongue here on the journal but that has to be the most appropriate use of a ted quote yet. Well done!
Rehashing old tv quotes from cancelled tv shows is the height of humour.
The timing of such quotes is the height of humour,
And the unnecessary bitchiness on a funny and innocent quip is the height of ignorance.
An tír is mó ar domhan agus an an spórt is fearr ar domhan. Craobh na Síne le teacht -íosfaidh siad na Cait!
Father Ted was never cancelled either.
Big pick
U wot m8?
Yer a bit of a big ole dope Damian :-)
Damien, oasis or blur?
Terence your joke or someone elses?
I can hear Michael O’Muircheartaigh already.
“Lu wins the breaking ball, passes it out to Chow who drills it down to Mein on the full forward line who is tackled and wins the free off Jackie Tyrrell. Lu Chow Mein – I ordered that in my local Chinese in Maynooth last night – and it too went down as easy as Mein there”
I hear you’re a racist now father….
It’s not the Chinese he’s after, it’s the Greeks!
Its the best game in the world. My dad won a dublin championship medal in the late 60s and im still so proud
Michael Rice and Lee Chin gonna pop in?
Lookit I know that was a bit of a controversial comment. But in fairness I did laugh at it. Have a thumbs up
+1 Mr. Hayes!!!!
I really like this….wonder if we’ll ever get to see the show with subtitles…the Chinese have a great sense of humour just like us…they’ll be laughing their heads off at each other trying to hit that sliotar.
Great for tourism.
Anyone know where we can get a link to that show! :)
You have very clearly never seen Chinese TV. It’s all recycled clichéd trash with zero artistic value. It’s all about making money. Not just for the channel, for everyone involved.
Not that they there aren’t funny people in China, just you won’t see them on TV, like Jia Ling. Who you’ll only ever see on a (very funny, admittedly) Wrigley’s ad.
Chinese TV humor is total slapstick. I think we’re a little ahead of that….
500 million people! Brilliant publicity for the sport.
You’re playing Sino hurling now, lads.
Is it true the producer of the show is Mr Fun Hur Ling ?!
The fact that people like you still exist is worrying to a lot of people.
Hoo Lee Fuke
What’s the craic with the black hurlies?
Can you imagine the deforestation of Ash trees should it catch on in China? I might plant a few :-)
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