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

12:30 pm

Mr. Brian Conlan:

The decision made by the board to award Mr. Kiely the level of remuneration associated with his pension was wrong. The suggestions being made by members around here in respect of achieving some redress in that regard should be pursued. I would like them to accept my bona fides in that I was not aware of the level of payments being approved for Mr. Kiely. I was aware only of the €200,000 and the kicking in of the pension in November 2016. I was not aware until this morning of this letter-----