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

12:50 pm

Mr. Barry O'Brien:

No. The Deputy is asking my opinion. Quite clearly, we already heard at a previous hearing that the then CEO was part of a private pension scheme whose terms and conditions he would benefit from. I also think it is hugely erroneous for the CRC to make reference to a package which was available in 2010 in the HSE when in fact Mr. Kiely chose to retire in June 2013 when no such package was available. To use that as a basis for calculating or as a methodology to award benefits-----