Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2009 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 37 - SKILL Programme (Resumed)
2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 41 - Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service
Special Report No. 80 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Administration of National Health and Local Authority Levy Fund

2:10 pm

Photo of Derek NolanDerek Nolan (Galway West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I accept that the Secretary General wants to be accountable and that he is doing everything he can to make sure it does not happen again. However, I remain concerned and am not convinced that the spirit of the law and regulations were followed by five trips to the US around St. Patrick's Day concerning health issues. Could Dr. McLoughlin talk about the point I mentioned, namely, that one of the people who went on those five trips sanctioned the funding every year? This person set it up, negotiated it and said "Dear Mr. Merrigan, we are going to give you a quarter of a million euro every year in the future." If I am wrong, could Dr. Smith correct me?

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