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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Has Mr. O'Brien seen the St Vincent's Healthcare Group accounts for 2011?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Has anyone seen them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Does the HSE know when they were lodged with the Companies Registration Office?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: I will tell the deputation. They were due to be lodged on 30 September 2012 because 30 September is the filing date for the St Vincent's Healthcare Group. The accounts for the year ended 31 December 2011 were only lodged with the Companies Registration Office in November this year. I believe they were signed by the board on 30 September, but they were not lodged at that stage. Therefore,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Some €202 million in taxpayers' money was received, yet the organisation does not bother its barney to comply with basic rules in terms of filing deadlines. Was the HSE aware of this and does it have concerns in that respect?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: The Chairman knows and we all know from our constituency work and our communities of the great lengths small businesses and companies go to in order to comply with various company law requirements and to file their returns on time. I have not looked back any further, but we have an organisation that received €202 million in taxpayers' money in 2012 which did not did not bother to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: I welcome what I regard as the improvements in the governance standards and the new documents that the HSE has put together. When I put this point to St. Vincent's last week it responded with a media statement to the effect that this was a reasonable question and one that it would consider. I ask it to strongly consider it for the reasons that Mr. O’Brien has correctly given, to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: How did you get those?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: It might provide them to the Companies Registration Office.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Does that mean they have been lodged with the Companies Registration Office?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Correct.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: I am talking about the St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: The point stands that my most recent inquiry established that it had not submitted the 2012 accounts to the Companies Registration Office. I will talk Dr. Smith through this. Page 6 of the healthcare group’s accounts contains a report from the independent auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers. This seems to be a confusing and complex area. Somebody might guide me on it. There is an...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: That is okay.
- 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) Simon Harris: That is interesting because I want to be careful here. We had a detailed discussion with the Mater hospital earlier which was very useful. I do not want anybody to be worried about their pension. I fully understand that it is effectively underwritten by the taxpayer. I do not know whether you can shed any light on my query. I took St. Vincent’s at its word that this adverse...
- 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) Simon Harris: Could the directors of St. Vincent’s address this issue in the body of their accounts to ensure that they do not have an adverse opinion because other organisations do not have one?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: That is good because we are talking about €202 million of taxpayers’ money and when I see an adverse opinion saying accounts do not give a true and fair view, I respectfully suggest that the board of St. Vincent’s could learn from best practice in other section 38 organisations which have dealt with this in a more transparent way.
- 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) Simon Harris: I thank Dr. Smith for outlining the position. On page 15 of the health care group accounts that directors' remuneration for services as directors in the years 2011 and 2010 were nil, while the respective amounts for other services in those years were €554,377 and €626,656. Again, I understand St. Vincent's has made public comment on this matter. It would, however, be useful...
- 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) Simon Harris: For what does the HSE pay Mr. Nicholas C. Jermyn? What is his publicly-sanctioned salary and what is his job description?
- 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) Simon Harris: Is the position of CEO full-time in nature?