Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive

3:45 pm

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

The HIQA report into Tallaght hospital, which was about something else, uncovered the fact that a parallel payroll was in operation in that location. We are satisfied this arrangement is no longer in place. There were changes of personnel and the board of that institution was reconstituted by the Minister, Deputy Reilly, in the immediate aftermath of that event. We are satisfied that governance arrangements there have substantially improved from where they were.