Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 December 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration

1:35 pm

Mr. Barry O'Brien:

There is an onus and a direct responsibility on all section 38 bodies to be compliant. We are only funding the section 38 bodies as per what we call the approved salary scales. The Chairman has made the point that we have a problem which has been well set out again today with people who are using alternative streams of funding to pay additional remuneration outside approved salary scales.