Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Public Accounts Committee

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

11:10 am

Mr. Hamilton Goulding:

There are a few different ones there. In relation to pay generally, we believe those levels were declared to HSE and known. The only instances I have of that were in 2009 when they were declared in detail and again in 2012. I cannot verify it, but I believe there was another correspondence in between that. Certainly in 2009 and 2012, which were actually the same basically, apart from two retirements - they referred to the same people so my understanding is that it was informed.

As far as Mr. Kiely's retirement package is concerned, I am not aware of a requirement to report such a termination agreement. I have never heard of a request coming in for that or a procedure by which retiring people should have their terms reported to the HSE.