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- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Sorry, I am not interested in and the committee is not here to discuss the remuneration committee at this point. Does Mr. Conlan accept the basic facts that this was brought to the board and approved by the board?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Does he also accept he was a member of the board?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Does he therefore accept the logical conclusion that he bears a responsibility for that decision?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Conlan accepts he is a responsible party for that decision. Does Mr. Conlan regret that decision? Was it the wrong decision? Has Mr. Conlan anything to say in this regard?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I am not asking whether Mr. Conlan is alarmed were shocked. I am asking him whether it is his view that this was a right decision or a wrong decision.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: It was a wrong decision and it was a decision to which Mr. Conlan was party. It may interest Mr. Conlan to know members now have the minutes of the special meeting. I ask Mr. Conlan to return to his opening statement again. He stated, "The idea that there was a transfer of moneys from public donations directly to into the salaries of a number of executives is inaccurate in itself". I am...
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I am interested to know which media outlet made reference to separate bank accounts or to separate paycheques.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I do not believe that many other people would share that impression. Does Mr. Conlan accept that the practice of using moneys from charitable donations to top up salaries was wrong?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: That is an evasive answer, if ever-----
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: No, I have asked Mr. Conlan a direct question and it is important that he gives a direct answer to this question. Moneys were used that were charitable or supportive donations for the work of the CRC. A proportion of those moneys was used for top-ups for salaries for a number of senior people in the organisation. In case Mr. Conlan is under any illusion, the public regards that as being...
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: The difficulty-----
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: Given the information Mr. Conlan now has in front of him regarding his predecessor's pension pot, I would have thought that he would have availed of the opportunity to revise that position.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: As a board member, Mr. Conlan would have been aware of this phenomenon of topping up salaries and he would have been aware that it was not restricted to Mr. Kiely. Surely he also would have been aware, given his position in the Mater, that this was at odds with public pay policy, that the HSE had difficulty with that, would he not?
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: As a board member, Mr. Conlan was not aware of that.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Chairman. I did not have the chance to scan those minutes. We can now establish that not alone was Mr. Conlan aware of the CEO vacating the position, but that from my reading of this because he had gone to the lengths of conducting preliminary meetings with recruitment specialists, it would appear he was so aware prior to the special meeting.
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: What does Mr. Conlan mean by "Just one"? This is not a comedy hour. Mr. Conlan is before an Oireachtas committee and he is honour bound and duty bound to state the full facts. As I stated to him earlier, I had the strong feeling that he was attempting to palm us off or mislead us. I now discover, perhaps, that Mr. Conlan has come in here to tell downright lies. As a member of this...
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I am sorry, but Mr. Conlan's credibility is pretty much shot as regards his appearance here today. Mr. Conlan realises that Mr. Kiely is leaving his position and he realises that, obviously, he is part and parcel of a preliminary investigation as regards the recruitment process, which, by the way, also fell outside of HSE guidelines and acceptable practice. Was Mr. Conlan aware of that?...
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: I simply do not believe him. Deputy Harris is next. We will return to all of this, but it is important to state briefly that, for staff, service users and those who donate, today, rather than being a moment of clarity and getting matters back on track, has been another knock to the clinic, and that is shameful. Mr. Conlan should have come before this committee fully informed and fully...
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: This sounds to me like a perfect pen picture of how dysfunctional the health service is. Many people listening in will pause for reflection when they hear that ten of the hospital's complement of 200 consultants are solely dedicated to public medicine. I am setting the scene for my questioning. In applauding and acknowledging the work done by the medics and medical staff of the hospital,...
- 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) Mary Lou McDonald: That remained their position until the eve of Christmas eve.