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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: I would be happy to get that clarification because the case deserves clarification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: It is important that the board meets formally. Where there is a difference of view, it is even more important that it gets aired at board level. Mr. Keeling obviously inherited difficulties when he took on the role of chairperson but he indicated that he took the view that in his judgment, the incumbent CEO was the best person for the job. He also said that because of that, he felt there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Informally?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Mr. Keeling, was the Department aware this had not been discussed by the board or was it of the view that this was the board's wish?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Was it aware whether it had been discussed by the board or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Let us go back to 2011 and the discussion of the then board. Perhaps Mr. Moloney can clarify this as well. Mr. Moloney indicated there were contractual issues in 2011 which were delegated to the chairperson. Will he clarify the exact nature of them? Mr. Keeling also indicated in his address that in 2011, the HRI board asked the then chairman, Mr. Denis Brosnan, to deal with the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Okay. It is clear in other correspondence that the Department was engaging with Mr. Keeling in respect of contractual issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Is Mr. Keeling clear that the Department had concerns that there may have been a contract of indefinite duration?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: The presentation today states the reason Mr. Kavanagh was appointed and supported by the HRI board was because it was felt he was the person for the job.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: That was the point made in the presentation. However, if it was the case that he was entitled to a contract of indefinite duration, was that not irrelevant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: In the sense he was going to have to be reappointed anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Was it not essential that the reappointment should have been discussed at the board? A former party leader of mine, Mr. de Valera, said when he wanted to know what the people of Ireland were thinking, all he had to do was to look into his heart. That was no mandate to disregard a Cabinet or a Dáil. All these contractual issues were present in the toing and froing to the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: After it was a done deal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: The Chairman had already engaged with the Department and got consent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Is it the delegates' legal advice that the written agreement with Mr. Kavanagh nullifies any right to a contract of indefinite duration?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: I am surprised that Mr. Keeling cannot clarify that point. Legalities seem to have dominated the process going back as far as 2011. It certainly seems to be the case that there were two pieces of legal advice - one from Horse Racing Ireland's steed and one from the Department - that there was a contract of indefinite duration issue. I find it incongruous, going into a third contract, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: Whether the board wants the term to end in five years does not affect the legalities. It comes down to what the contract states. Since there have been contractual complications since 2011, surely the board has obtained legal clarity at this stage on whether there is a contract of indefinite duration. Did the Department make it clear pre-2011 that there should not be a third extension? If...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has committed to reviewing the position with regard to the nitrates regulations being weather dependent in light of last weekend's deadline. I know it is a matter of direct responsibility for the Minister, Deputy Coveney, who is seated beside the Taoiseach. As a result of the unusual weather conditions this year, many farmers still have not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (18 Oct 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 71. To ask the Minister for Health if a third consultant rheumatologist has been appointed to Sligo General Hospital; when the outreach rheumatology clinic will be reinstated in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30493/16]