Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 15 July 2016

Public Accounts Committee

HSE Financial Statement 2015

10:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

It depends to some extent, of course, on the exact circumstances, which will be revealed to us all when the internal audit review is complete. Clearly, it can be dealt with through the level of funding that we give to St. John of God. Only St. John of God may be in a position to recover that money. We do not know the exact circumstances. It is being suggested that whatever money was involved was funded from private income. We would need to be satisfied that that is the case and that it was not in fact the recycling of public funding. I am not reaching any judgment on such matters because to do so would prejudice the process, and I am very clear that St. John of God at this point is co-operating with this internal review, as far as we know, notwithstanding a legal letter. I want the review to reach conclusions so that we all have the full facts, and then we can decide on the appropriate-----

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