Cabinet condemns ‘shocking’ CRC charity top-ups
FIACH KELLY, MARK HILLIARD The board of the Central Remedial Clinic is coming under mounting political pressure to explain its use of funds raised by a charitable company to top up the salaries of its...
View ArticlePeople cancelling charity donations due to top ups row
Fundraising Ireland, an umbrella organisation for professional fundraisers including a number of well-known Irish charities, said its members’ were reporting people cancelling their charitable...
View ArticlePeople cancelling donations due to top ups row
Fundraising Ireland, an umbrella organisation for professional fundraisers including a number of well-known Irish charities, said its members’ were reporting people cancelling their charitable...
View ArticleFunds down after revelations of top-up payments to CRC executives
Charities have reported a drop in donations which they have attributed to revelations that money raised through fundraising were used to top up payments to executives in the Central Remedial Clinic...
View ArticleCharity donations not for ‘lavish salaries’ - Burton
Charitable donations should not be used to fund “lavish salaries”, Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has said. Speaking at the Labour Party National Conference in Killarney tonight, Ms Burton...
View ArticlePeople cancelling charitable donations due to top ups row
Fundraising Ireland, an umbrella organisation for professional fundraisers including a number of well-known Irish charities, said its members’ were reporting people cancelling their charitable...
View ArticleCharity donations should not be used for ‘lavish salaries’ - Burton
Charitable donations should not be used to fund “lavish salaries”, Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has said. Speaking at the Labour Party National Conference in Killarney tonight, Ms Burton...
View ArticleUsing charitable donations to fund salaries
Sir, – Organisations who sought charitable donations and then used these to “top up” the salaries of...
View ArticleBoard did not sanction CRC top-ups, says ex-FF minister
A former Fianna Fáil cabinet minister has said he will not resign from the board of the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) over revelations that public donations were used to top up the salaries of senior...
View ArticleBoard did not sanction CRC top-ups, says former FF minister
A former Fianna Fáil cabinet minister has said he will not resign from the board of the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) over revelations that public donations were used to top up the salaries of senior...
View ArticleReilly denies any deal done on CRC top-ups
Minister for Health James Reilly has dismissed claims by the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) that it had an agreement with the Health Service Executive to top up the pay of senior executives with money...
View ArticleCRC top-ups ‘not at any stage sanctioned’ - HSE
The HSE has said that top-up payments for the chief executive and other senior staff in the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) were “not at any stage agreed to or sanctioned” by it. The statement comes...
View ArticleReilly denies any deal done on CRC salary top-ups
Minister for Health James Reilly has dismissed claims by the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) that it had an agreement with the Health Service Executive to top up the pay of senior executives with money...
View ArticleMaking charitable donations
Sir, – The well-justified uproar over supplementary payments could not have come at a worse time of year for voluntary organisations of all kinds. Christmas is far and away the time of year when...
View ArticleCo-operative Group slashes funding for charities
Scandal-hit group pays former Tory aides for advice but cuts cash for ethical causes The new Co-op revelations come in the wake of the scandal surrounding Paul Flowers, above. Photograph: PA The...
View ArticleDuty of candour: a fear of whistleblowing still pervades the NHS
Whistleblowers have been promised changes to support them but many people still worry about speaking out 'There should be a duty of candour. Until people are held to account … I can't think things...
View ArticleCRC’s former chief executive repays HSE excess salary
The Central Remedial Clinic’s chief executive who resigned yesterday has repaid the HSE extra funding he received in excess of official guidelines. Brian Conlan, who took over as the clinic’s chief...
View ArticleScandal clinic 'needs fresh start'
The chief executive of the scandal-struck Central Remedial Clinic has insisted his successor should have no previous links with the hospital. Brian Conlon said he stood down in the wake of the top-up...
View ArticleClinic chief's appointment probed
The recruitment of the head of the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) who resigned over a salary top-ups controversy is to be investigated by the Government's spending watchdog. Beleaguered Brian Conlon,...
View ArticleRest of CRC board must answer questions satisfactorily or else resign -...
(Source: Irish Labour Party) 9 December 2013 Following the resignation of the CRC Chief Executive Brian Conlon, Robert Dowds TD, member of the Public Accounts Committee and former teacher in a school...
View ArticleCRC says it is legally obliged to continue top-up payments
The chair of the Central Remedial Clinic’s board has told an Oireachtas committee today that the organisation is legally obliged to continue paying top-up allowances to senior staff at the...
View ArticleLegal threat on CRC salary cuts
Scandal-struck Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) chiefs said they face being sued if they enforce salary cuts on bosses getting top-ups from public donations. Five well-paid executives at the hospital are...
View ArticleMaking charities transparent
Sir, – Ireland’s 8,400 charities provide a vast range of public services in communities across Ireland. Just over half of the funds spent by these organisations come from the exchequer, with the rest...
View ArticleFormer chief executive of CRC says charities should be fully open on how all...
Brian Conlan, who resigned yesterday as chief executive of the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC), said there should be full transparency in the charities sector on how all funds raised from the public and...
View ArticleFormer CRC chief executive received €200,000 lump sum from charitable...
The former chief executive of the Central Remedial Clinic Paul Kiely received a lump sum of €200,000 from charitable donations when he retired earlier this year, it emerged today. Mr Kiely also...
View ArticleAudit finds Cambodian NGO used a donation from Gina Rinehart for operational...
A $440,000 donation from Gina Rinehart to fund a women's crisis centre in Cambodia was swallowed up by a charity's operational expenses, an investigation has found. A KPMG audit into allegations of...
View ArticleFormer City minister Myners joins Co-op Group board on £1 salary
Myners joins with immediate effect to oversee governance review in wake of Paul Flowers drugs scandal Lord Myners will be paid a token £1 for his efforts to restore Co-op Bank’s reputation....
View ArticleLittle clarity - or humility - but plenty of searching questions for CRC...
After five and a half hours of brazen denial, long-winded explanation and tortuous grand-standing, we ended up where we started out. We had no clarity over who authorised charitable funds to be used...
View ArticleWeapon to blame: Bombers
Essendon has defended its contrasting treatment of Dean Robinson and James Hird, declaring responsibility for the club's supplements program lay chiefly with high performance boss Robinson rather than...
View ArticleClimate of fear during inquisition
Over the course of months, most of Wellington's elite were summoned to a meeting room deep within the central city tower building occupied by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and asked to...
View ArticleCharity donations ‘plummet 40%’ in wake of CRC revelations
Charity donations have plummeted by up to 40 per cent in the wake of the top-up payments controversy, according to Fundraising Ireland. The umbrella group for professional fundraisers said charities...
View ArticleHSE takes over CRC after board resigns
has appointed an interim administrator to run the Central Remedial Clinic. It will put in place new governors to oversee the organisation following the resignation of its board of directors last night...
View ArticleReport on BBC severance packages (The United Kingdom Parliament)
(Source: The United Kingdom Parliament) The Public Accounts Committee publishes its 33rd report on BBC severance packages. The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, today...
View ArticleMajority less likely to donate to charity since top-ups controversy
A substantial majority of Irish people are less likely to contribute to charity because of the top-ups controversy, according to the latest Irish Times, Ipsos MRBI opinion poll. The poll also showed...
View ArticleUn-bankable institutions
What do I expect of my bank? Thirty years ago, my answer to that rhetorical question would have been simple: I expect financial expertise and complete trustworthiness in the provision of a service. My...
View ArticleCompTIA Partner Advisory Council Helps Four Groups with Charitable Donations...
(Source: compTIA - Computing Technology Industry Association) Downers Grove, Ill., December 17, 2013 - The Partner Advisory Council of CompTIA, the non-profit association for the information technology...
View ArticleWintershall supports social and charitable organisations (Wintershall...
(Source: Wintershall Holding GmbH) Kassel. With its traditional Christmas donation, Wintershall supports locally based charitable organisations. This year the focus is on organisations that provide...
View ArticleSt Vincent’s refuses to provide details of allowances for senior staff
CARL O’BRIEN and MARTIN WALL St Vincent’s University Hospital has refused to tell a HSE audit into top-up payments how much it has been paying senior staff in private allowances. In an update to its...
View ArticleSt Vincent’s refuses to provide allowance details for senior staff
CARL O’BRIEN and MARTIN WALL St Vincent’s University Hospital has refused to tell a HSE audit into top-up payments how much it has been paying senior staff in private allowances. In an update to its...
View ArticleReilly warns St Vincent’s over failing to co-operate with top-up audit
Minister for Health James Reilly has warned that St Vincent’s University Hospital faces “serious consequences” if it fails to co-operate with a HSE audit on top-up payments. Dr Reilly was speaking...
View ArticleReilly warns Vincent’s of 'serious consequences' over top-ups
Minister for Health James Reilly has warned that St Vincent’s University Hospital faces “serious consequences” if it fails to co-operate with a HSE audit on top-up payments. Dr Reilly was speaking...
View ArticleEx-AIG executives pursue NY ethics complaint
Former American International Group executives are pursuing an ethics complaint against the New York prosecutors still bringing the charges that cost them their jobs at the insurance giant in 2005....
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