Results 6,081-6,100 of 21,440 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: -----that the information be passed without hesitation or delay to the Department of Health and that the Department seek clarification on these matters before reverting to the committee to set the issue at rest.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: When did Dr. McLoughlin first have sight of the internal audit report?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Section 38 of the internal audit report on agencies' remuneration was issued on 15 March 2013.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: That is the HIQA report.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Did the key finding of the report not jump out at Dr. McLoughlin when he read it? I refer to Department of Health approval being sought and obtained informally.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that. However, on this particular issue - trying to unravel what happened and why it happened is obviously a serious matter - did that finding not jump out at Dr. McLoughlin?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: As part of that assessment, did Dr. McLoughlin not seek from Dr. Smith the names of the agencies in question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I have just asked Dr. Smith this question. Was Dr. McLoughlin aware of the identities of the agencies that were making these claims?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Is that not a little odd?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: With all due respect, this is a factual report. It is an internal audit.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: For the purposes of the committee, I find it troubling that there is more than an inference in this regard but a report that agencies have made this claim. Incidentally, let me be absolutely clear that there should be no tolerance shown or quarter given to any agencies that brazenly breach public sector pay guidelines and policy. It must be galling for public servants on modest salaries to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: And I take Dr. McLoughlin's assurances. I would not ask him to operate on the basis of hearsay. I was not offering hearsay. I was quoting from a HSE internal audit report.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure Dr. Smith has indicated that she will pass on the names of those agencies. I raised the issue of the FEMPI legislation and the recoupment mechanism. What consideration, if any, has been given to that in the case of the section 38 agencies?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: That is a very useful clarification. Therefore, we can surmise from that that there is no legislative basis upon which the overpayments, the breaches or those sums paid to this very small number of individuals can be recouped.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Which leads us back to the difficulty that the overpayments and the breaches were financed from private funds.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I feel as if I am on the set of an Agatha Christie drama. I will start with you, Mr. Daly. You indicated in your statement that the board investigates every allegation of impropriety. You indicated four complaints made to An Garda Síochána, two relating to former employees and two in respect of debtors. How many complaints or allegations of impropriety has the board considered...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Both because you stated very clearly that it is a role of the board to investigate every allegation of impropriety.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: What was the nature of that allegation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
NAMA - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012 (20 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Can you give a fuller description than that?