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MINUTES OF A special meeting of the CRC board of governors detail how it was agreed to give outgoing chief executive Paul Kiely a €742,000 pension and pay-off package – and to keep it confidential – in March of last year.
The minutes have been published on the Public Accounts Committee website today and were discussed at yesterday’s revelatory hearings where Kiely’s retirement package was disclosed.
The meeting took place on 25 March 2013 at 5pm in the Central Remedial Clinic boardroom and present were Hamilton Goulding (son of CRC founder Valerie Goulding), Hassia Jameson, Jim Nugent, Ailbhe Rice-Jones, and Martin Walsh.
Not present were Vincent Brady, Brian Conlan, David Martin and Pat Ryan.
Crucially, the minutes record that chairman Goulding made a presentation “outlining details of a proposed financial settlement which might be offered to Mr Kiely”.
“The board considered that the proposed arrangement was fair both to the CRC and to Mr Kiely and approved the package as presented,” the minutes state.
The minutes state that it was agreed by board members that “the terms of Mr Kiely’s settlement are confidential, and that a legally binding Confidentiality Agreement will be put in place”.
The actual details of the package are not recorded in the minutes but were disclosed by the CRC’s interim administrator John Cregan in this letter to the HSE director general Tony O’Brien that was read out at the PAC yesterday.
Can’t see the minutes clearly? Click here
A crucial question which arose at yesterday’s hearings, where former chief executive Brian Conlan was quizzed for nearly four hours, was whether, having not been present, he had read the minutes.
He told PAC members that he did not, saying: “I was not privy to Mr Kiely’s pension settlement. That is the truth. I was not part and parcel of the remuneration committee.”
Conlan later added: “I would say that the decisions made by the board to award Mr Kiely [that] level of remuneration in his pension was wrong.”
It’s not clear whether Conlan, who was not giving interviews today, was sent a copy of the minutes or if they would have come across his desk.
That is likely to be an issue the PAC will want clarified.
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I’m assuming crimes like this aren’t THAT rare? How come this one in particular is being publicised?
its a filler lara, sunday afternoon not much happening.
I was just thinking that today had been a pretty tame day, news-wise! (I’m not complaining, no news is good news!)
Anything over €800 is news.
They’ll be dragged to justice!
I heard someone stole a traffic cone and a county council sign in Castlebar last night, no suspects.
I worked in retail and one woman stole over €1000 worth of perfume and clothes and that never made the news… Only staff were informed and she returned to the scene of the crime a few days later to try her hand again and was arrested!
Articles like this are why TheJournal are losing subscribers by the thousands every month. 90% of the ‘news’ here is copied from elsewhere with just the headline changed. The only thing thats keeping it going is probably the comments factor
Why is this in IRISH NEWS?
Why is it ANY news in the greater pool called world news….the journal’s not what it was when it started out.
Cause Irish Suspects!… (Ok I take my coat!..)
This article boggles the mind..
A clothes theft in the UK with shocking quality pictures??
Cliodhna are you hungover to füčk writing this one up or wha..
Ok seriously…..WHY is this in Irish News…Journal.ie is getting worse by the week with the amount of non-stories & non-news rubbish on it !!
They’re probably well on their way to Mexico now with their whopping £800 haul of womens clothing
lol
dressed as women………………………..
You lol at everything – I’m dubious
If you’re going to republish UK news at least take out the bit that’s only relevant to those living in the UK.
“Anyone with information should call police on 101 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111″
We cannot call police on ’101′ in Ireland, we can’t call UK 0800 numbers from Ireland either…..
Blatant copy and paste job
Here’s a good story for ya, why don’t ya search AFP or AP so ya can copy n paste a story on how the Syrian Arab Army wiped out most of ISIS top commanders in a raid on the city of Raqqa yesterday, much more newsworthy than this shite..
joe
the journal is a neocon pro israeli rag, do you honestly think that they are going to tell the truth about the middle east?
Pointless article! A jewellery shop in Tallaght was robbed of a lot more than that recently.
and tallaght is in ireland, this is english news in the irish section.
They missed Dublin pride by a week…
Another +1 for #TeamFrank.
This happens every week in retail parks nothing new. Boucher Rd in Belfast, blanchardstown retail park nearly daily.
Do Journal ever read the comments to see how disappointing their reporting of news stories is getting and how obvious it is becoming. In the couple of months I have been reading it has got worse. This article reaches a new low.
they don’t care, it’s not a news site it’s a repeat site, terrible really, critize isrel and ask questions about z io nism and you’re banned
Pro copy and paste job here.
Police looking for 3 cross dressers !
I heard they were in a bad mood as well.
On the run ? They were caught and fled custody?
Quite a few don’t know what
“on the run” means
Why would the Journal think someone shop lifting in a foreign country would be a news worthy story ?
Wow. Breaking news from the journal.
Writing news stories for children can be difficult.
I NEED MY HIT OF GARTH BROOKS NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
Hardly the french connection is it?
lol
Why oh Why?
They could have bought all the clothes on alibaba.com for £100 and sold them at a nice profit
No brains these people.
They prob gone to Brazil now . No extradition there so they can spend all that 800 quid worth of clothes
B*stards.
These robbers are’nt just any old robbers they’re …………………
dirty robbing bitches
Why is journal not responding to fact that is coping and pasting uk news…
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