The Health Service Executive noted in 2011 that charity Console had "strong governance structures", it has emerged.
The comments in an email obtained by RTÉ's Investigations Unit came two years after the HSE had investigated the suicide charity and found its accounts were inaccurate and that some people were incorrectly listed as board directors.
Other documents released under Freedom of Information suggest that the HSE kept the Department of Health in the dark in 2009 about its concerns about how the charity was run.
The charity has been hit by controversy in recent weeks after the RTÉ Investigations Unit revealed questionable payments to and extravagant spending by founder Paul Kelly, his wife Patricia and their son Tim.
