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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: In hindsight, should the board have sought independent advice when it was arranging his settlement package?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: With regard to the medical devices company, and this is not a criticism of the report, but Ms McGuinness in her opening statement omitted to make reference to it in related undertakings and was not aware of the funds being accumulated by the Friends and Supporters of the CRC. The HSE is involved in capital projects with the CRC; they are funded out of Friends and Supporters of the CRC funds....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: That is not the point. If I am providing revenue funding for the operational costs of a business, the first thing I will ask is, "How did you fund it? Where did the funding come from?"
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: For the ordinary person looking at this, it would strike them as unusual, perhaps incredible, that the HSE would not have been aware of a related company having funds of €12 million which were funding capital projects for which the HSE was funding the operational costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Who would not have been aware? The HSE?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: I am looking at it now with the report. Ms McGuinness has stated the HSE was not aware of the funds in the Friends and Supporters of the CRC.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: I wish to conclude with the medical devices. Mr. Cregan said in page 58 of his report with regard to repayment of €550,000 in 2013, that the Friends and Supporters of the CRC made a payment of €550,000 in 2013 to CRC on behalf of CRC Medical Devices "on foot of this undertaking", and that this amount was in settlement of all funds advanced to the CRC Medical Devices by CRC....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Did the CRC, the main company, provide the medical devices company, which was a private operation, with €550,000?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Cregan not find that a little unorthodox?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Cregan know at this point what loss will be incurred by the overall group for the medical devices company?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: I have a question for Mr. Timmins in light of what he has seen regarding the settlement that was paid. What does the board intend to do with the payment or settlement that was out of line with the HSE guidelines? What does it intend to do with the medical devices company?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect, the money raised by friends and supporters was for capital projects.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Of that, €750,000 was used for a settlement. With the benefit of hindsight and considering the e-mails between Mr. Goulding and Mr. Kiely. I want to take away the personalities from those documents, and to put it in lay terms, it seems Mr. Kiely was able to come up with his own dowry without having to provide for it. Should Mr. Kiely have come up with his own package or should the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: I want Mr. Goulding to deal specifically with the issue of Mr. Kiely effectively coming up with his own dowry. Why did the CRC not bring in an independent party to adjudicate on his package. It appears Mr. Goulding sent an e-mail indicating that it would be extremely important that the board would sign off on the package, and that the board rubber-stamped it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Did the board at the time seek legal counsel advice at any stage about Mr. Kiely's entitlement to retain that level of salary and get that type of remuneration package?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: The problem is the €700,000 could have been used for front-line services. The memorandums and articles of the friends and supporter fund indicates it should be to "erect building structures, train nurses, educate and generally assist." It is also to "provide home help for disabled persons". A €700,000 settlement, without seeking proper legal advice, does not meet the terms of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Is Mr. Cregan satisfied with the structure of the group - which comprises the Central Remedial Clinic as a stand-alone entity with the Friends and Supporters of CRC being a 50% shareholder in the Care Trust and a 100% shareholder in CRC Medical Devices - which was established to circumvent the HSE being made aware of moneys?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: Reference is made on page 55 of the report to the company purpose and the memorandum and articles of association for the CRC and Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic. It is fair to say that the €700,000 transferred from the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic to CRC in respect of settlement fell outside the terms of its memorandum and articles of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: I was struck by Mr. Goulding's opening statement. CRC does fantastic work. I have reviewed the original memorandum and articles of association of the CRC, of which Mr. Goulding's mother was the founding member. I want to divorce the work done by CRC and its staff and users of the facility from the structures. Mr. Goulding asked earlier why he is here today. The HSE is the custodian of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Kieran O'Donnell: I was struck by Mr. Goulding's statement that he first shook a collection box for CRC at the age of 15 on the streets of various towns around Ireland. The Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic raise approximately €1.4 million per annum through the Care Trust. This money is raised through the sale of tickets countrywide. The people who purchase the tickets expect that...