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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I am reluctant to interrupt Professor Whelan but I have an amount of questions to get through. As a new health care group, a decision was made to have one individual take on the two roles. I think that is a statement of fact.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: At any point, was the Department of Health or, subsequently, the HSE consulted in regard to that situation? I would really appreciate an answer to that aspect.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I know Professor Whelan is trying to be helpful but I just need him or somebody else to answer that question.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Let me give some examples of why I believe and I think the HSE believes - it is possibly why the Minister for Health made the comments he made earlier - there is the potential for conflict of interest in the current situation in St. Vincent's. These are not personal remarks but are about the structures which have been put in place. I want to give two examples. The first is the situation...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Excuse me, can Mr. Jermyn tell us where he is reading that from?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I actually disagree, not based on my own feelings on the issue but based on the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the comments of Mr. Cathal Magee and the comments of the former Comptroller and Auditor General at a meeting of this committee at which I was present. The conclusion of the report from the Comptroller and Auditor General is that St. Vincent's Healthcare Group pledged...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Mr. Harrington is saying that the Department and the HSE did not do their job in protecting the taxpayer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Did the hospital board have any duty or responsibility in terms of taxpayers' assets?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: The taxpayer was providing a list of investments, with which I will not bore Mr. Harrington. We have a list of the investments made by the taxpayer between 2000 and 2004 on developments at St. Vincent's University Hospital totalling €130 million. Did Mr. Harrington not think someone on the board should have asked about the public interest?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: The point I am making is that there was an amalgamation of a public hospital and a private hospital under one board and the amalgamation of the roles of the CEO of the private and public hospital. At the board meetings where the public hospital was represented by virtue of the presence of the public hospital CEO, for whom the State is paying, nobody was asking about the public hospital and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Finally-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I hope Professor Whelan does not mind me moving on because we are a little short of time and I have a number of other questions I wish to put to the witnesses. With the indulgence of the committee, I wish to refer quickly to the issue of consultants and their contracts, which is another example of the perceived conflict of interest. This goes back as far as 2011 when, according to an...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Does Mr. Jermyn believe the hospital is fully in compliance with the consultants' contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I have many more questions, but I will allow some other members of the committee to come in at this point. I will come back in if that is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: No, I am happy with that arrangement. I hope further dialogue is not required and that St. Vincent's will reach the compliance stage and members wish it well. However, if further dialogue is required, I understand Professor Whelan would be happy to come back before the committee and provide members with further information, if needed.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Agencies (21 Jan 2014)
Simon Harris: 168. To ask the Taoiseach the number of quangos, State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department that have been merged, reformed or abolished since 2011; the details of each of these measures in tabular form; the cost saving or service delivery improvement which has resulted; how many more he expects to be merged, reformed or abolished and the timeline for same; if he will...
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: State Papers Issues (21 Jan 2014)
Simon Harris: 387. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration will be given to reducing the 30-year rule for the release of State papers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2272/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Charities Regulation (21 Jan 2014)
Simon Harris: 496. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects a Charity Regulator to be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2273/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (23 Jan 2014)
Simon Harris: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding plans for a new school building (details supplied); the timeline for commencement and completion of this building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3252/14]