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Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: My next question is addressed to Mr. Tierney. Irish Water has just been set up, but presumably the board, which is a 12-person board, has been sitting for a period of time. Is this correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: That is fine. How often do they meet?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: Do they have a remuneration committee?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: So the remuneration committee of Bord Gáis approves executive pay and bonuses.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: Okay, but your pay goes to the board?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: What about the bonuses? Do they go to the board?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: So the board has not approved the bonuses.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: No, but there is a plan to give bonuses. Is that approved by the board?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: So the executive decides the bonus scheme, or it has decided it.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: Does Mr. Tierney have a say in that?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: However, he does not have a direct say in that particular scheme.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: I am probably not making myself clear. I know Mr. Tierney does not get a bonus, but are any people, who are getting bonuses, deciding on their own schemes?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: None.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: Okay; that is fine. I have some questions for Mr. Heffernan. What is the attitude of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to the payment of the bonuses?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: When did the Minister write?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: What is his attitude to it? He does not have to approve it and the Department does not have to approve it because it is not within his responsibility.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion (15 Jan 2014)

Shane Ross: Would it be correct to say the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform does not intend to take any action about this bonus?

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)

Shane Ross: I would like to begin by referring to the letter that the Chairman received from the director general of the HSE yesterday. We have all got copies of it. I want to get those issues out in the open before I raise them with Mr. Conlan. It appears that at its meeting of 11 December last, this committee was misled about the terms of the pension awards to Mr. Paul Kiely. It was certainly...

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)

Shane Ross: Could it be circulated to members? Could we have copies of it as well?

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)

Shane Ross: I thank Mr. O'Brien for bringing this to our attention so rapidly. It is difficult, in a short period, to take it all in. Perhaps Mr. O'Brien will clarify a few issues for us. He is obviously correct that this is many miles away from what the committee was told. The package deal for Mr. Kiely is unrecognisable. What we understood, and this came out at the previous meeting, was that Mr....