Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Public Accounts Committee

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

11:30 am

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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A meeting was held in February 2013 agreeing a pay package. The accounts were signed off in May 2013 and then, by coincidence, these payments of €742,000 were all paid in June 2013. Is that correct? They were all paid after the accounts were signed off. There are a lot of coincidences, a lot of timing and dates after things have been signed off. People were still applying for front-line services. Half the 2013 annual income of the CRC friends and supporters was being raided for one individual who was leaving. Mr. Conlan is telling me that he was a member of the board at the time when this agreement was signed, that he became the chief executive officer, but he was not aware of it.