While the country still reels from the financial scandal discovered at the Console charity, another firestorm of controversy is bound to explode in the very near future – with possibly even more to come.
It emerged yesterday that the Health Service Executive is launching an investigation into alleged wage top-ups that were made back in 2013 for as many as a dozen staff at the St. John of God hospital in Dublin.
The investigation claims that 12 managers at the institution received lump sums totalling a staggering €2 million in top-ups.
St. John of God is cataloged as a section 38 charity, which means that the HSE provides it with funding of up to €130m a year. Furthermore, the organization’s Service Level Agreement explicitly specifies that it “shall not pay nor subsidise salaries, expenses or other prerequisites which exceed those normally paid within the public sector.”