The Minister for Health insists the HSE did NOT approve the CRC's payment of salary top-ups to senior managers.
The CRC says it only started using lottery income to pay private top-ups after the HSE stopped it from using public funds.
But this evening James Reilly says the HSE did NOT approve of the payments from private sources.
He stressed that any top-up payments are not allowed under current law, and the HSE did not sign off on the arrangement:
