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
3:50 pm
Mr. Nicholas Jermyn:
If I may, Deputy, I will just finish my point and then answer that question. The reason we disclosed the three people - it was seven versus three - was because we had not completed the discussions with the individuals. As we said earlier on, we have now completed those discussions and we are compliant with those three.
In regard to the circular, there is a differentiation. As group chief executive, I can say that I think we have covered it and we are committed to sorting this out. The actual view was that for the public work we receive a public salary for a public pension and we do public work. In the context of the three people that were dealing with the group work, they were paid privately and that was deemed outside the one-salary-one-person public sector public pay service. We have discussed this and I do not-----
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