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The money covered the pensions of senior staff, including funding a €747,000 pension paid to an ex-CEO.
Former CRC chair Hamilton Goulding will attend, as will his successor Kieran Timmins.
The Public Accounts Committee is due to hold further hearings on the scandal hit disability clinic next week.
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.
The Central Remedial Clinic’s board were independently appointed based on their competences.
Kiely last appeared before TDs on the Public Accounts Committee in December, but it has since emerged that his retirement package was more than he had disclosed.
Fianna Fáil’s Seán Fleming asked that the PAC receive new information the HSE has uncovered prior to officials appearing before TDs on the public spending watchdog.
A member of the Public Accounts Committee says they were “misled and possibly lied to” on the CRC payments issue.
The Minister said that the CRC scandal was “an astounding set of circumstances and absolutely shocking”.
A former CRC chairman said that Kiely worked hard over three decades so “it is not as if he has not been entitled to some of it”.
The Public Accounts Committee has published the minutes of the meeting where the controversial remuneration package for the outgoing CEO were discussed in the spring of last year.
“You feel disgusted and saddened, but not just for yourself and your child, you feel for the staff of the CRC, they’re so amazing, they work so hard.”
The Public Accounts Committee has uncovered new details about payments and other expenditure at the Central Remedial Clinic.
The Public Accounts Committee will hear further details about the top-up scandal at the Central Remedial Clinic tomorrow morning.
The hospital has identified where €660,000 in annual pension fund fees from the clinic goes, following suggestions that it didn’t exist.
The HSE’s director of human resources, Barry O’Brien, said that the executive “had no knowledge on that” arrangement.