Results 21,001-21,020 of 26,152 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: If the Mater were not receiving the €660,000, would the HSE be obliged to pay it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: If the Mater had a surplus in its superannuation scheme, would that feed in as part of the income on an annual basis for funding from the HSE?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Let us assume the Mater had no pension payments to make on an annual basis and it received €660,000 from the CRC on annual basis but had a deficit of €500,000 in its operating costs. Would the hospital receive the €500,000 from the HSE to make up the deficit or would the HSE claim the €660,000 from the CRC could be used to balance the deficit?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: The point I am making is that the Mater could have had a serious cashflow advantage, which would have been a cost to the Exchequer, in respect of pension costs that would only arise 20 years down the road. Will Mr. O’Brien clarify that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Can I just go back to get a bit of clarity? I have read the correspondence to the Mater hospital, dated 9 January 1979, effectively from the secretary general, about the CRC. It also makes reference to St. Paul's Hospital. My question is for Ms Day. The amount paid annually from the CRC is €660,000. Are those 180 people employees of the Mater hospital? Of the €660,000 that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: At this moment in time, how many of the 180 CRC people are in receipt of a pension? For how many former employees of the CRC is the Mater paying a pension?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Of the 180?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: What is the balance of the difference between the amount the Mater hospital has received to date from the CRC and the pension contributions that have been paid out? How much has the Mater received to date?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: €0.7 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: When does Ms Day anticipate that that will kick in? There is a surplus of about €8.8 million in that fund at the moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: That is €9.5 million minus €0.7 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: So there is a surplus of €7.8 million in the fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: In the Mater's in-house scheme, is 10% set aside? Is the same percentage of salary set aside into the superannuation fund?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: With regard to the situation whereby the Mater is in surplus every year on the payment, does the hospital combine the payment received from the CRC? Ms Piggot said the Mater was in surplus every year with the payment of pensions. Is she talking specifically about the CRC or the overall scheme for the Mater, the CRC and the other bodies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: I have a question for Mr. O'Brien. From 2001 to date, there is effectively a surplus of €7.8 million on the fund paid from the CRC to the Mater. This is more a funding issue for the Mater itself. Looking at the funding, I take it that the CRC is funded by the HSE for the €660,000 that is paid per annum to the Mater. Is that correct, Mr. O'Brien?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: Our remit in the Committee of Public Accounts concerns public funds. We are being told there is a surplus of €7.8 million in the amount paid from the CRC to the Mater for the last 13 years. Is that amount, which is paid from the CRC to the Mater, funded by the HSE? In that context, is it taken into account by the HSE in funding the Mater? I have to ask the hard questions. We have...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Kieran O'Donnell: No. The question I am asking is about the Mater being funded by the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the total amount and what is the purpose of the funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that the total amount in respect of funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Kieran O'Donnell: Both the Comptroller and Auditor General and the secretariat of the Committee of Public Accounts do fine work. When witnesses come before us, we are well prepared. However, issues arise on occasions which require a short timeframe and the accumulation of specific information. We must examine specific instances where this arises whereby we have access to bring in expertise for a specific...