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

12:30 pm

Mr. Hamilton Goulding:

In that case, we were looking at an unknown scenario. When we were facing into something that had to be done, we wanted it to be done in the bast way. We were trying to choose the influences that would make us achieve the best result. We did not know what those external influences might be. We were trying to narrow it down to something we could control. Of course it could have been the case that many other suitable people could have come into the picture. I am glad that one such person has come into the picture in this case.