700,000 euro was taken from the fundraising arm of the Central Remedial Clinic to pay the retirement lump sum of its former CEO.
The Dáil's Public Accounts Committee has heard that the payoff to Paul Kiely was over twice the amount previously disclosed.
Mr Kiely was given a retirement payoff of over 473,000 euro - well over the 200,000 he told the committee about last month.
The HSE's Barry O'Brien said the CRC's charity fundraising arm needed to cover the cost of the payout:
