Results 181-200 of 579 for pension speaker:Mary Lou McDonald

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...in full. Last week, the Committee of Public Accounts learned that €700,000 from the funds of the Friends and Supporters of the CRC, gathered by charitable donation, was used to top up the pension pot of the former CEO. The golden handshake in this case was approved by the board under what seemed to be a cloud of secrecy. The former chairman of the Central Remedial Clinic, Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...way. Mr. Conlan did know about Mr. Kiely exiting his position. Mr. Conlan was part and parcel of managing the process. He should not tell me that he only discovered today about this gold-plated pension package. I do not accept that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and acceptable practice. Was Mr. Conlan aware of that? He probably does not remember. Mr. Conlan is a member of the board, Mr. Kiely is exiting and Mr. Conlan has no knowledge of this pension package that has been agreed by the board of which he is a member. That is not credible on any level. Personally, I would like to see Mr. Conlan alongside Mr. Kiely and the other board members...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Given the information Mr. Conlan now has in front of him regarding his predecessor's pension pot, I would have thought that he would have availed of the opportunity to revise that position.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...any detail or to demonstrate any knowledge of the information members now have in respect of this sum of €700,000, which was marked down as a donation and which found its found its way into the pension arrangements of his predecessor. Mr. Conlan should be aware that is not helpful. It is not the hallmark of a prepared witness, perhaps, or perhaps it is the hallmark of an...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 41 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (15 Jan 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: First, I am assuming the figures for the reductions of staff numbers and the €3.4 billion in payroll savings, 17.7%, are not net of pension payments, lumps sums, gratuities and so on but gross. If they are net, when one does the maths, the savings do not seem as spectacular. Will the Minister be advancing a programme through the Civil Service and public service which will see the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the more clearly. I would have thought, and still think, given the turn of events of the last committee meeting and given the fact that Mr. O'Brien is in charge of human resources nationally - and pensions are a significant subset of that function - that he would be in a position to explain to the committee precisely the mechanisms and the manner by which contributions are made to the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: At this juncture, would Mr. O'Brien have the details of how other section 38 organisations handle their pension matters?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Ms Day has clarified things absolutely. I imagine the approximately 180 staff whose pensions are managed by Ms Day must have been rather troubled to hear the public commentary in respect of their pensions, given the grave difficulties in so many pension funds.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to put a question to Mr. O'Brien from the HSE. I understand that the HSE pension section in Manorhamilton deals with these matters. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is Mr. O'Brien's relationship to the pension section? Is Mr. O'Brien the line manager?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Therefore, up until three months ago Mr. O'Brien was the line manager for this pension section in Manorhamilton. Is that the case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: I find it astonishing that Mr. O'Brien, as the person in charge of human resources for the HSE and as the person who, until three months ago, had direct line management responsibility for the pensions section in Manorhamilton, was not in a position to clarify all of this at our last meeting. Mr. O'Brien will recall when the issue of the pension arrangement arose and can look back on the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...put it to Mr. O'Brien that I find it extraordinary, whatever about the confusion around the term "fee", which I accept, that in public session at an Oireachtas committee hearing in respect of this pension issue, Mr. O'Brien could give no account or context in respect of the matter. The word that went from this committee which, frankly, was mystified by the turn of events, was that vast...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...of the fee was a curveball and that Mr. Kiely misrepresented the position. However, as the national director of human resources, Mr. O'Brien would or should have been aware of the manner in which pension contributions were made by section 38 organisations. Mr. O'Brien should certainly have been aware that if there was any mention of a fee, it would not be in line with standard...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. O'Brien should have been in a position to know that no fee was appropriate and that there would be no cause for any fee for the administration or handling of this pension matter. More to the point, given the fact that the HSE has been immersed in consideration of section 38 organisations, given that audits have been done and given that it has been a matter of public comment, I would have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: It was with some astonishment that the committee got word of this pension issue at the end of our last meeting. I wish to clarify the point. As with all other public servants, the fact that the scheme is underwritten by the State does not discount the obligation of the employee and employer to make a contribution to the scheme. Is that so? Furthermore, it is fully accounted for in line...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: .... He is probably aware that Marks & Spencer stores closed across Ireland recently owing to strike action taken by 2,000 employees which hey took in response to unilateral changes made by the company to their pensions and other working conditions. Further strike action was averted following the issuing of a Labour Court recommendation last Friday which was recommended by the...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...events and huge financial and operational risks to the largest local authority in the State. These negative consequences will affect local authorities across the State. Dublin City Council faces pension liabilities of €330 million for water service staff without the assets to fund it. It is normal practice that when a public function is transferred from one authority to another,...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...and stick the Government's hand in the pockets of families the length and breadth of the State, despite the Taoiseach's honeyed rhetoric of recent times. There is clearly a concern in respect of the pension liability. Nobody is suggesting for a minute that all those liabilities would be crystalised in a week or a month but it does warrant some explanation to the local authority as to why...