The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has suggested the board of the CRC should consider its position. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has today agreed it will seek legal powers to force the former CRC chief executive Brian Conlan to attend a hearing next week.
A separate hearing will be held next week to examine allegations about the management of the CRC pension fund by the Mater Hospital.
The Taoiseach said nobody had any doubt about what the CRC board of directors should do now.
PAC chariman John McGuinness says the Committee has no other option than to force Mr. Conlan to appear.
Earlier, the Independent TD Shane Ross called for deeper investigations into the 'unorthodox' arrangement between the Mater Hospital and the CRC on the management of the CRC pension fund.
The Mater has dismissed claims made at the Public Accounts Committee that the pension fund is a 'phantom' fund that does not exist.
PAC member Shane Ross says the CRC gave a very opaque explanation as to why it pays the Mater €660,000 a year - but the Mater has since shed some light on it.
In a statement last night, the hospital said it "absolutely refutes" the claims made at the Public Accounts Committee that the clinic pays the Mater to run a 'phantom fund'.
