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

Kieran O'Donnell: There were no fees.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I want to go back to Friends and Supporters of the CRC Limited. Between 1998 and 2011 it raised approximately €27.856 million, of which almost €8 million went to the CRC and approximately €15 million was set aside for the provision of loans for associates. There was a balance of approximately €5 million. Of what do the provisions of loans for associates consist of?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Of the €28 million, €8 million went to the CRC and somewhere between €12 million and €14 million is set aside at any one time for various projects. That is generally-----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. O'Brien made reference to consolidated pensions. I presume the HSE is funding the portion of Mr. Kiely's pension to the approved limit. Is that correct?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Are there circumstances where the pensions of employees of agencies covered by section 38 are funded by the HSE?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: My final question is for Mr. Nugent and relates to the correspondence regarding Mr. Conlan's appointment. On what date was he appointed to his post?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: A letter dated 19 July was a response to a letter to Mr. Leo Kinsella and was signed by Mr. Nugent's good self. It reads: In response to your letter of 8th July on the above subject, I have to inform you that the appointment of Mr Brian Conlan to the position of Chief Executive has already taken place. On 26 July the CRC entered into a contract of employment with Mr Conlan...The letter is...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: This is the key letter, in that the CRC stated that it was going ahead with the appointment of Mr. Conlan regardless. The dates are contradictory. I am surprised that it was not picked up by the HSE. Not to reiterate, but when one considers everything that has happened to date, for the sake of the CRC and the charity sector it would be important that the board strongly consider its...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Was the CRC dealing with the Mater private or public hospital?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Did Mr. Kiely seek legal advice at the time as to the status of the legal agreement? Did the board seek legal advice? A sum of €600,000 per annum was being paid for something that, as he said, a grade 3 clerk could do. How much would a grade 3 clerk be paid?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. 1 on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 27 November. Are the minutes agreed to? Agreed. I note that there are no matters arising from the minutes. The minutes of yesterday's meeting will be before the committee at its meeting next week. No. 3 is correspondence received since the meeting of Thursday, 27 November. No. 3A is correspondence received from Accounting Officers...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: It will be on the agenda next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. 6 is any other business.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I agree with Deputy Shane Ross that during the proceedings yesterday - at 1.44 p.m. to be precise - Mr. Conlon issued a statement which he directed towards the Committee of Public Accounts on foot of my questioning yesterday. I made reference to the fact that he had been overpaid by a top-up payment of €40,000 above the agreed salary level with the HSE and that I believed it should...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: It was sent directly to the PAC secretariat.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: One of the tangible issues that will help restore that is that the board of the CRC steps down. That is the reality of the situation on foot of the work done in the Committee of Public Accounts yesterday. This is a collective group but for me it is about the people up and down the country who are fund-raising for charities, and the service users. Something positive must come out of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes. They committed to come back to us.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Mr. Maloney. I want to check on some facts, but will keep my questions direct. I am little confused regarding the valuation. An independent valuation of the site was conducted in June 2005 by CB Richard Ellis Gunne. That valuation was €240 million. Was that the only independent valuation that was completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: Was the Irish Glass Bottle site the largest investment transaction the Dublin Docklands Development Authority had ever entered into?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 77 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Dublin Docklands Development Authority: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Kieran O'Donnell: What other transaction of that nature took place?