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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Was a specific application made to fund a severance payment above the terms?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Does the scheme allow for additional or side payments?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Would HRI be expected to be aware of any additional or side payments made in addition to the scheme that is approved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Surely from a funding and precedent perspective, HRI would also expect to be made aware if additional payments that were not funded by it were being made.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It was not made aware.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: What does Ms Eade mean when she says not formally?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: There may have been proof----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Ms Eade was not party to it at that point, but there may have been informal conversations between HRI and IHRB as to whether it would be possible to fund this additional payment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The existence of additional payments in excess of the approved scheme would undermine the overall scheme-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: It could create a precedent. It could create additional funding demands. Other employees coming down the track later could cite it as a precedent, which could lead to a situation where it would have to be funded if it continued as custom and practice for a long period.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Mr. O'Loughlin has informed us that a number of parties were informed that the CFO would not be present today. Was Ms Eade informed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: That puts everybody in the room in a difficult situation. Does Ms Eade have any comment on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: To some degree, we are at a disadvantage because we do not know how awful it is and we do not know what is coming down the track. Does this pose a significant challenge for Ms Eade in terms of being able to secure votable public funds in order to fund the IHRB into the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Is there a possibility that this could include a criminal investigation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Is there a possibility that public funds might have been misappropriated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: What form did extending that opportunity take?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I have the benefit of having sat through two nearly full sessions now. There has been a lot of discussion about the barter account and about invoices and so on. I want to come back to the issue of the tripartite agreement. In what was an excellent piece of public service broadcasting on "Prime Time", Mark Coughlan gave a great summation of what has happened here. He described the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Was Mr. Collins aware of a tripartite agreement and was he aware of it being cost-neutral?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: To my question about knowing about the agreement being cost-neutral the witness has said he did not know. I will ask Mr. Coveney the same question. Was he aware of it being cost-neutral?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The witness has no knowledge of a tripartite agreement. Was Ms Doherty aware of a tripartite agreement and it's cost-neutral nature?