National Maternity Hospital Master Dr Rhona Mahony has said her remuneration is strictly in line with the contract she has with the hospital and is in compliance with public service pay requirements.
In a statement, Dr Mahony said the additional €45,000 paid to her did not come from the health service or any other source, including fundraising and charitable donations.
She said it was from professional fees from private patients attending the National Maternity Hospital.
Dr Mahony said her contract allows her to provide clinical care to private patients, as is the case with all consultants in the Irish health service who have the same consultant contract as she does.
She said she had been I "personally vilified over the last few days."
"This has been utterly unwarranted," the statement concludes.
In a separate statement, the board of the hospital said it fully endorses Dr Mahony's statement.
Meanwhile, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said a report on unapproved top-up allowances to senior hospital officials is being prepared to be presented to Minister for Health James Reilly.
Mr Kenny said hospitals that did not respond to two letters from HIQA in respect of the unauthorised payments will be called to account for their failure to respond.
The Taoiseach also said he disagrees with Fianna Fáil Public Expenditure Spokesperson Sean Fleming that he misled the Dáil in terms of when the Government knew about the top-up payments.
Mr Kenny told the Dáil the Government had no idea about excessive payments being granted to some top hospital executives. But Mr Fleming said the Government has known since last March about the top-ups.
Mr Kenny said the Government was dealing with another legacy issue that began in Mr Fleming's party's time in government.
The Taoiseach said that this had come to light last May in respect of Tallaght.
He said Minister Reilly had instructed HIQA to carry out an investigation into this and from that had followed the consequences that are now public.
Meanwhile, Temple Street Children's Hospital today confirmed that there have been no top-ups to the salaries of senior management staff at that hospital.
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