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Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: Is there not a conflict in that he is both a lender and a borrower at the same time?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: Mr. Nugent is and he was conflicted. The point I am making, on which I will ask him to comment, is that, in this deal, it is very likely that the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic have been stuffed. Some €3 million has gone from that body. The source of the funds is money given voluntarily, supposedly for sick people. It has gone from the Friends and Supporters...

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: How will it be repaid? Sorry, go ahead, I apologise.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: Did they tell Mr. Nugent the same in 2007? He is gambling on the stock market is he not?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: How will the pension fund increase?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: Mr. Nugent is protecting Mr. Kiely and other people at the expense of the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: People all over the country are taking pension reductions or are getting none. It would not be unreasonable to go to the top people in the CRC, especially those who are paid €240,000, and tell them they are also taking a reduction instead of taking money from the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic. Mr. Nugent did not do it. It may be paid back but that is...

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: Closer or down to it?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: Is Mr. Nugent telling me that when he gave Mr. Conlan the job he knowingly breached the HSE guidelines?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: So the CRC paid him above the HSE limit?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: So the CRC paid him above the limit despite all these warnings. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: That is extraordinary.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: So the CRC gave Mr. Conlan a top-up out of the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: The CRC went through an extraordinary process. It did not externally advertise the post, as is required. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: Who was the recruitment consultant?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: Who made the final decisions?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: The board members all knew Mr. Conlan presumably.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: Mr. Conlon was a member of the board and sat on the audit committee with Mr. Nugent. There were just three members.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: So Mr. Nugent would have known him very well.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Shane Ross: Why did the CRC not advertise externally?