Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process
1:00 pm
Ms Oonagh Buckley:
We were given a copy of the report. We assisted the Department of Health in drafting a statement of pay policy for the voluntary hospitals. The Department wrote to the HSE and the HSE wrote to the voluntary hospitals, on foot of this report, asking them to examine each of these payments. We will continue to work with our colleagues in the Department of Health to make sure the matter is rectified to the best of our ability, bearing in mind the difficulties to which the Secretary General has referred, in terms of instances where people might have acquired a legal entitlement to those payments, for whatever reason.