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- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Shane Ross: That means it has been paying it for ten years without questioning it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Shane Ross: Mr. Kiely always questioned it, but he always paid it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Shane Ross: It is a complete rip-off.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Shane Ross: Where did it get the figure of 10% to 13% of gross salaries?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)
Shane Ross: I agree with virtually everything Deputy Simon Harris said, but I would go further and say we want to see Mr. Conlon. He has said he is not coming. I do think, therefore, that there is any point in asking him again to do so. We should go straight for compellability powers and look to him to answer questions. There are many questions about him to be answered, into which I will not go, and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)
Shane Ross: Could the clerk make a telephone call rather than just wait for a reply?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Shane Ross: I endorse what Deputy Mary Lou McDonald said. Meeting tomorrow would be far more appropriate. It is not convenient, but we have to get up to speed on this issue. In having them in immediately after the HSE we would not be properly informed.
- 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) Shane Ross: The relevant point in Ms. Daly's statement was her assertion that there was no charge for the arrangement. The accounts of the Central Remedial Clinic describe this arrangement as involving a fee. Is that correct? The accounts state that the Mater hospital acts on behalf of the Central Remedial Clinic as an agent for the operation of the scheme and charges a fee.
- 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) Shane Ross: The auditors and the Central Remedial Clinic got that wrong.
- 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) Shane Ross: The 10% of €669,000 is not a fee. That should be corrected in the 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) Shane Ross: I ask Ms Daly to explain how this operates. I think I know but perhaps she could explain what happens to the approximately €669,000 that is paid into the fund per annum.
- 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) Shane Ross: I understand the Mater hospital has a liability and income on its balance sheets but does that money go into the pot to be spent as the hospital wishes? There is no fund.
- 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) Shane Ross: Is it ring-fenced?
- 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) Shane Ross: It is a fund.
- 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) Shane Ross: Does the hospital have a shortfall?
- 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) Shane Ross: It has a surplus.
- 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) Shane Ross: I do not quite understand that. The money comes in and it is ring-fenced somewhere.
- 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) Shane Ross: It is notional, in effect. It is not put into a separate account.
- 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) Shane Ross: However, these costs are underwritten by the Department of Health, which will pay if there is a shortfall.
- 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) Shane Ross: In effect, there is no liability because it is underwritten. The Mater hospital will not lose anything on it.