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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Did the HSE, at the time, extrapolate and come up with a figure for the total amount that would have been involved over the years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Dr. Smith know what year these allowances have been paid from?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Roughly, what would the HSE expect the total to be? Would those figures be reflective of the situation over the past five or ten years?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: How many years are we looking at here?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is both a legacy and current issue. Given that one of the payments began in the 1990s, this has been going on for the last 20 or 25 years.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Finally, from what year does the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest, FEMPI, legislation apply?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of addressing the issue under the FEMPI legislation, can the HSE deal with this from 2010 or 2009 onwards?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: The HSE has written to all of the agencies involved. Has any of them changed their pay scales and allowance regimes to come back into compliance with Government guidelines? Of the 43 agencies that the HSE wrote to, did any of them respond to the effect that they were changing their pay and allowance scales?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Really what Ms Lawlor is saying is that of the 43 agencies, seven have confirmed compliance. The HSE expects that a further seven agencies will have made the adjustments downwards to be in compliance with Government pay guidelines. That leaves 29 agencies about which the outcome is still unclear.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Could Mr. O'Brien repeat that last point please?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it possible for me to ask a supplementary question?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, it is very short. Dr. Smith compiled her reports and produced a figure of €3.2 million for allowances and €912,000 for externally funded salaries. That was in respect of which year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I do not think there will be any Christmas holidays for the HSE this year.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Nine agencies and 29 people are involved, and €346,561 was contributed to private pension schemes. That ranged between 4% and 46% of their pay. How did that situation arise, how was it allowed to continue and how is it still continuing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: What are those agencies?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Where did their percentages fall between 4% and 46%?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can we take it that this matter will be resolved and that these agencies will come into the public schemes?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: When people are out fund-raising for all these agencies and they see a situation, regardless of its merits or demerits, with this level of pension contribution into private schemes from public funds, there is a major question mark. Under section E, non-compliance, there are 12 agencies confirmed in letter and identified under "no approvals submitted for deviations from payroll pay policy."...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: So they wrote back in defiance to the HSE saying, "This is what we are paying; you can like it or lump it. We are not answerable to the HSE." Do those 12 agencies have service level agreements with the HSE?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. O'Brien is missing the point. We have a job here, as public representatives of the people on the ground who are dealing with the agencies every day of the week, many of them out fund-raising. This issue is dominating with regard to salaries. I am more concerned about the funding that goes to front-line services. I want this matter sorted. This is not a proper use of either Mr....