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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: If a clinician is managing the flow of treatment in a public list but has an ability to benefit financially by treating that person through an NTPF initiative, I regard that as a conflict of interest. While it may be difficult to avoid that conflict of interest, what steps has the NTPF taken to ensure that management, if you want to use that word, or mismanagement, of the public lists does...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: The concern lingers in the public, given all of the discussion, that in some way those people who are responsible for managing the flow of work through public clinics are organising that work in a way that other colleagues or they might benefit financially from it. What steps is the NTPF putting in place to make sure that does not happen? While I appreciate that Ms Brady has given me a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: In some ways, we have discussed a lot of stuff. However, I appreciate the response. I return to Ms Hardiman's employment contract. It is unfortunate she is here as an individual and is also responding to what I think is a system-wide issue. If someone can accrue a contract of indefinite duration, which they have an employment right to do over two terms, it calls into question the sense...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Of course.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Does Ms Nugent have the same type of contract? Will we be facing the same scenario at the end of her ten-year period, should she last or - I apologise - should she serve that term? I apologise for misusing that word. I meant serve that term. I apologise to Ms Nugent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: The question was whether she has the same contract.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: There is a system-wide issue for the Department with other public bodies. We are essentially having to resolve what should be a specific purpose contract, because a contract of indefinite duration, CID, is in place.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: If you were to serve the ten years would you?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: I am out of time, unfortunately. I will come back in on the second round.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)
Paul McAuliffe: This is an issue which the previous public accounts committee dealt with. It relates to Whitehall College, a building which has lain idle and unused for almost a decade. City of Dublin ETB has provided detailed correspondence with regard to the current position. Unfortunately, while the Department's reply is incredibly helpful in terms of the new project that will take place on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: I thank the witnesses for being here today and the work they do every other day. I want to continue to focus on the issue relating to pensions. Perhaps the representatives from the National Shared Services Office can also assist. What has gone wrong here is that the correct amount was not reduced in the individual calculations of people's salaries. I know there are three different...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Obviously that was an error. Am I right is saying that it is also connected to amounts that were gifted back to the State?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: A person might have decided to give back a sum of money back to the State, but when they gifted that back they should also have paid a figure on top of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: For the privilege of gifting that back to the State, there should have been an additional cost to them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Could the cost have come from the total gift?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: I am not aware of any other category of workers who gift large portions of their salary back to the State. Is there another category that does this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: The only category I can think of that has not been mentioned is Members of the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: Members of the Oireachtas do give back amounts of their salary.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: I accept that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Paul McAuliffe: I want to see if a similar issues arises in another category of workers.