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Updated at 9.10am
THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Committee is writing to the former board members of the CRC this week, with a view to calling them back before the panel to answer further questions on the issue of the €742,000 pension and pay-off package handed to former CEO Paul Kiely.
It emerged in a committee hearing last week that €700,000 of the amount paid to Kiely was taken from the CRC’s charitable fund, the ‘Friends and Supporters’ group. The package included a €200,000 tax-free lump-sum and a €273,336 taxable payment, amounting to €473,336.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, PAC member Simon Harris said the appearance was necessary as the panel had previously been “misled and possibly lied to” as it examined the payments controversy at the Clontarf clinic.
“We’ve heard from members of the former board of the CRC who seem to have left their memories at the door,” the Fine Gael TD said.
Harris was also asked about reports that documents relating to Kiely’s deal had gone missing, and admitted that the HSE had told the committee “they were having difficulty locating some minutes”.
“We’ve seen the minutes of the famous meeting on the 25 March [at which the payments package was agreed]. We need to see the minutes of the renumeration committee, we need to hear the details of the pension presentation Mr Kiely made to the board.”
Harris said that he hoped the former chair of the CRC Hamilton Goulding would provide all documentation and board minutes he had to the Public Accounts Committee, after Goulding said yesterday in a radio interview that he would to so.
“I would really urge Mr Goulding to do so today,” Harris said.
Outstanding questions
In the wake of Goulding’s interview on RTÉ’s This Week yesterday, Harris said last night that the former CRC chair still had “a number of outstanding questions to answer”.
Among the questions set out by Harris were:
Meanwhile, there have been conflicting reports as to whether Kiely intends to pay back part of his six-figure pay and pension package.
Quoting friends of the former CRC chief executive, The Irish Daily Mail reports this morning that he would be willing to hand back some of the money. The Sunday Independent, also referencing sources close to Kiely, reported yesterday that he had no intention of doing so.
Additional reporting, Aoife Barry.
First posted at 8.50am.
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Stop all payments, freeze his pension and put the onus on the CRC to prove that these monies were sanctioned. Wonder how long the paper work will stay missing then
with untruths and the missing paperwork the CRC has now all the hallmarks of the ireland of the cons
Is Paul kiely always on that mobile phone???.
You would wonder who would want to talk to a f&%king sleaze ball like him…
“At the tone, the time will be four-twenty two and thirty four seconds…*BEEP*…”
It would be very interesting to see who he is regularly on the phone to.
I’d say the receptionist at FF HQ calls him Pauli at this stage.
It’s something to hide behind, and an excuse not to give a comment.
Use of the mobile phone in this manner is the white-collar executive equivalent of the way a scanger uses a hoodie when he is leaving a police station/courtroom.
Maybe he’s organising a dig out: http://youtu.be/SG5wiC021Co
“at the tone your bank account is €€€€€€€”
@gods horse great stuff..
Documents gone missing! Surely not!
You’d think that with such huge amounts of cash being handed out that there would be piles of documents. But then again the elites live in a different world to the rest of us.
I am sick to the pit of my stomach watching and listening to these people playing the blame game and trying to squirm out of this.
It’s obscene and a kick in the teeth to the staff.
mike the staff are but the little people or us they are them this is the real way of the cartel in this country which is rotten to the core
Here we go again with the missing documents excuse. Its wearing a bit thin now.
Why just focus on Kiely? What were the rest of the board paying themselves for their multiple directorships?
Did any of them set foot in the CRC patient areas, or did they have a separate luxury entrance for ‘management’?
Documents gone missing next we will hear he has no bank account no wait where did I hear that before
FF’ers find bank accounts over cumbersome, look at Micheal Martin putting that 5k donation in to his wife’s bank account. Such confusing necessity and mistakes possible with bank accounts.
These guys should be in front of a court of law not in a kwango for politicians to look good asking stupid question then running to the nearest news room to show us how great they were to get answers. No point closing the door after the horse has already bolted.
Fianna Fail spent decades making the laws so that things like this cannot be prosecuted.
Look at the list of FF Ministers from the last 40 years. Look how many were exposed later as criminals.
It is by deliberate intent that white collar crime is not pursed in Ireland. The people making the laws are the ones worried about it.
If this goes to court he’ll have every Fianna Fáiler who got a job in the Guards or the courts or Judge being called up and told to not let one of their boys down.
He has nothing to worry about it.
How many Ministers have been exposed as criminals?
@Cillian_Durkin
How many Ministers have been exposed as criminals?
@Cillian_Durkin
Okay’ your silence answers the question……..that’s right “Zero”, Ministers have been exposed as criminals! I agree with your sentiment though…….but, like the PAC committee (Shane Ross to be exact) and his astonishment at CRC, “hiring the same consultant’s (for the new post for CEO at CRC) that made a gross deriliction of duty during the boom etc., etc.”……..they likewise have not been ‘criminalised’……..So to use them as reference in a PAC questioning in my opinion is very, very amateurish and discredit’s the entire Committee…….and the Public.
That phone should be lodged up where the sun don’t shine. All that money and he still has to bum a lift off someone.
Did you see that Hamilton Goulding, his mother was a FF candidate etc, was saying that poor Paul Kiely was sick with the stress of it all.
Fianna Fáil didn’t cared over the last 30 years when the charity was being looted and sick and dying children loosing out.
Why should we care now how Kiely feels.
He knew what he was at when he got involved in FF and went along with them,all the way to the top . He knew that this day could eventually come.
I don’t think I’d be particularly intimidated by the PAC……they don’t seem to be that professional to me. Their objective is to ask questions directly and get an answer without commenting on such or looking for approval from their colleagues or the gallery. Also should not be making their questions known to all and sundry.
While one person was been interviewed last week………..there were two guy’s talking continuously like kids in a classroom behind them…….the whole setting just doesn’t seem right.
John McGuinness = the new McCarthy! Let the witch-hunt begin
Beware Greeks bearing gifts!! —- , I’d love to think he is genuine , But he was up to his uxters and a supporter of berties to the end ( ie a coven of crooks)……………. and leopard doesn’t change his spots overnight …….
Sorry Guys but i just dont buy it, he;s pandering to the crowd and too sweet to be wholesome
Totally immoral ,what other charities are doing the same thing,using tax payers money, oh sorry robbing us .All boards of management are responsible
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