Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive

5:15 pm

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

There has been a fairly robust engagement with the CRC during the course of this year in respect of the appointment of the successor CEO and the assurance that we required that the salary being paid was appropriate. We will deal with the other matters as we proceed. One of the options available to us relates to the service arrangement for 2014. We are not yet at a point of knowing exactly which way we will approach it, but there has been a fairly robust dialogue between the CRC and our area manager responsible for it, particularly on the salary level of the replacement CEO, because we were not satisfied about those arrangements in the first instance.