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Former CRC chief rejects that any fundraised money was kept secret

A report found that the CRC set up its charitable arm for the sole purpose of making sure it got as much money as possible from the HSE.

A FORMER CHAIRPERSON of the Central Remedical Clinic has said he rejects the suggestion that money fundraised by the organisation was “kept secret from the HSE”.

A report published today that the CRC set up its charitable arm for the sole purpose of making sure it got as much money as possible from the HSE.

This fund was used to pay salary top-ups for senior executives at the CRC.

In a statement this evening, Hamilton Goulding believes it “exonerates CRC of wrongdoing allegations”.

He welcomed that the report found that it was “unnecessary to refer any matter to a third party or authority”.

“The details were published in annual accounts and formed the basis for jointly funded projects with HSE,” the statement read.

Goulding also “rejected implications in the Report that the Board should have waited to implement the Haddington Road agreement to reduce potential payments to the departing CEO”.

The Board was restricted in its actions by legal and contractual obligations that the HSE refused to accept at the time but has since conceded represent a real challenge in dozens of other salary cases it is seeking to address.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Six One News, the chair of the Oireachtas Health committee  Jerry Buttimer said the former CEO Paul Kiely had a “moral obligation” to “reflect on the report and do the right thing”.

Fianna Fáil’s health spokesperson Billy Kelleher this evening called for the report to be sent to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement and the Revenue Commissioners.

“The practices within the CRC that emerged during the PAC hearings had a major impact across the charity sector,” he said.

“The public were left angry and appalled when the details of salary top ups and extortionate pension packages were revealed.”

Read: The report into the CRC says it only set up its side charity to get more money from the HSE >

More: A 27-year-old woman who has attended the CRC since she was a baby describes what it’s like >

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    Mute Trevor Weafer
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    Jun 19th 2014, 11:16 PM

    When will anyone in our country become accountable for any wrongdoing?

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    Mute Shakka1244
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    Jun 20th 2014, 8:28 AM

    Why should anybody? Nobody has done anything wrong. Not one single teat guzzler. Not one.

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    Mute Wayne Keogh
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    Jun 19th 2014, 11:43 PM

    My nephew Leon Keogh goes to the crc and according to the staff they don’t have money for a new wheelchair for him which is a disgrace as he is to big for the one he is in at at risk of damaging his spine further as thats what his doctor told my sister that was last year still no chair

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    Mute Lorraine Dempsey
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    Jun 20th 2014, 1:26 AM

    Wayne you can blame the HSE for the lack of funding and waiting times for equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers and splints as they are the body that sanctions funding, not the CRC.

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    Jun 20th 2014, 2:14 AM

    HSE could give a million for wheelchairs but who? including the HSE can believe that CRC will actually spend it on wheelchairs. How they account for their funds have to be made very clear to everybody before they will ever operate the way we all expect.
    The money grabbing climate has to change ASAP.

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    Mute Eric Davies
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    Jun 20th 2014, 12:40 PM

    Are people aware that the h.s.e actually refuses to take back wheelchairs and walking aids once they are finished with? last year a friend of our’s mother injured her hip and needed a wheelchair for several months, when she had recovered sufficiently to no longer need the wheelchair she was given a walking frame , our friend phoned up the local hospital and asked where he should return the wheelchair to, he was told “we dont take them back” he asked why and was told ” because of the cost of recovering them and repairing them , its a health and safety issue” ! he was told the exact same thing by 3 different departments and got the same answers when he tried to return the walking frame. is it really any wonder that the hse is in such financial difficulties when expensive equipment is being discarded ?.

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    Jun 19th 2014, 11:15 PM

    Exonerates C R C of wrongdoing allegations. What f#cking chair was he sitting in.?

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    Mute Michael Nolan
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    Jun 19th 2014, 10:40 PM

    Bring back the lash

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    Jun 20th 2014, 12:34 AM

    Easy for Hamilton Goulding to say. Coming a distinguished wealthy family with Lady Goulding as his mother. He’s a retired Aerlingus Captain on a big fat pension on top of a hefty salary from CRC!! These people sicken me.

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    Jun 20th 2014, 2:15 AM

    How come the revenue didn’t take this on when there was a sniff of wrong doing?….do they have the powers? (I suspect they do but….we ain’t dealing with ordinary folk)

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    Jun 19th 2014, 11:06 PM

    Right !!!! And pigs might fly.

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    Jun 20th 2014, 8:29 AM

    They are all kings of the silver tongue

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