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

4:05 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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That is not the procedure.

Somebody asked when these payments all started. One of the organisations, the South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital in Cork, got approval for a non-standard allowance. It was on 21 April 1995, almost 20 years ago. Is that still being paid to the person in that post, or is it the same person who received the approval? It is the only evidence I have seen how long a period is in question. We all know the payments dated back to 2005 in Tallaght but here we have a figure dating back to 1995. Are there many other payments that have been made for that duration?