Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 January 2014

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

2:50 pm

Mr. Nicholas Jermyn:

The Deputy is right. As I said, Mr. Redmond retired from the private hospital, which is a privately-owned part of the hospital. He was paid purely with private income from the hospital. He has retired and, as I said, he has not worked with us. He has had a break in employment and is, I believe, looking for work and on the market to look for work at this point in time. There may be a situation whereby we might use some of his skills but he is no longer CEO of the private hospital. We are restructuring the organisation. In fairness, I should stress that we have a group chief executive and, in light of discussions the board is having with the HSE, we have replaced Mr. Redmond with a chief operating officer in the private hospital who reports directly to me, as Mr. Redmond reported directly to me at the time. It would not be fair for me to comment on his personal arrangements. I do not know them all. As I said, the Deputy is obviously very well informed. I am not too sure what he is doing.

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