Changes at Dublin-based centre follows controversy over payout to former chief executive

Department of Health says providing early findings on top-ups could have hindered HSE

Opinion: Though they get little credit for it, serving politicians have taken substantial salary cuts

It gets public funds from Dublin, London and Europe, but the exact amount the group gets is not disclosed in accounts

Person brought back cannot earn more than original level of remuneration

Opinion: We are a rich society and can afford proper services, so why don’t we just get on with it?

Calls for former directors to give evidence over details of Paul Kiely’s retirement package

Varadkar is latest Minister to call on former chief executive Paul Kiely to return money

Hamilton Goulding takes issue with reports payoff will not be repaid

Chairman says there are unresoved questions over €740,000 severance package

Paul Kiely’s pension package was ‘many miles away’ from what Public Accounts Committee was told last month, says Independent TD

“If I think about it too much I just get really angry,” says father of woman whose physiotheray hours were reduced by half

EY, formerly Ernst & Young, act as auditors to both the CRC and to the Friends and Supporters operation that part-financed Paul Kiely’s retirement package

HSE chief Tony O’Brien says money could have shortened waiting times for CRC clients

Wages had become ‘unsustainable’, say sources

Head of HSE describes situation as ‘absolutely unacceptable’ and a betrayal of dedicated staff

Gilmore shocked by pension payment and concerned at impact on fund-raising

Minister for Social Protection says she was ‘shocked’ by details of CRC payoff

Committee member Shane Ross says he is ‘gobsmacked’ by the whole affair

Concerns over whether board adhered to company law with payment of €740,000 retirement package to Paul Kiely

Former chief executive and board member unaware of the scale of the payments

Committee member says the health agency was extremely generous with travel expenses for staff

Health authority says arrangements at variance with evidence given by CRC board

Department to introduce new rules on top-up payments

Interim administrator appointed to run Central Remedial Clinic after top-up payments controversy

Conlan says he will appear before Public Accounts Committee

Former chief executive resigned as director of the organisation in recent weeks

The controversy over pay and governance issues at the CRC has posed a range of deeply troubling questions about how both charitable and State funding is being used.

HSE said clinic’s process to appoint chief executive ‘highly irregular’

Labour TD says board should answer questions satisfactorily or resign

Brian Conlon appointed in controversial circumstances earlier this year

Advance is ‘unsecured, interest-free and not repayable in the short term’

HSE sets a salary scale of €83,252 for the role

Serious dispute over recruitment and salary of chief executive was ‘unprecedented’

Criticism of charity by Ministers described as a ‘political stunt’, says Vincent Brady

Minister for Finance says there should be no more top-ups in voluntary sector

Government urged to investigate use of charitable funds to supplement salaries

Kiely, a key part of former taoiseach’s ‘Drumcondra Mafia’, among number of board members associated with Bertie Ahern