Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration

11:20 am

Mr. David Martin:

It definitely was. That was what circled around the meeting in June 2009, the subsequent correspondence that was sent and the agreement that we reached with the HSE in that respect. There was never any increase in salary from each individual's starting point. Salaries remained the same. It was the level of funding that we received from the HSE for those salaries that changed. That was discussed at board level. There is probably some misunderstanding of what was or was not discussed, but the letter of 17 November 2009 was equally discussed at board level. It is quite possible that Mr. Brady may not have been at that meeting. As the Deputy knows, we do not always have full board meetings.