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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: Turning to Professor Whelan, I am sure everybody welcomes and shares his commentary in respect of the public interest. Can I put to him that in real terms his hand was forced, that he resisted, and that was evident even from correspondence from his colleague, Mr. Nicky Jermyn. We saw dispatches from him at one of our last committee meetings before Christmas and that he was unwilling and,...
- 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: Who gave this legal advice?
- 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: Would Professor Whelan care to name them?
- 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: If the witness is going to cite the advice it is as well to name the author of the advice.
- 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: Please.
- 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: Can I ask Professor Whelan, because the Chairman will only have so much patience in terms of his time allocation to me, to remind the committee of the level of funding, as a section 38 organisation, which his hospital is in receipt of on an annual basis, or perhaps Mr. James Menton can provide that figure?
- 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: Some €195 million.
- 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: Some €220. I thank Mr. Menton. That is very helpful. I think Professor Whelan will acknowledge, not withstanding the sterling service he provides to patients, that €220 million of public funding is, by any stretch, a very significant level of funding. He will be aware also that the FEMPI legislation dates to 2008 and that there is an expectation at all times, but...
- 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: We have heard that doctors differ and patients die. If doctors differ I can assure Professor Whelan that lawyers do.
- 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 correct.
- 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: Thank you. To help the situation, I invite Mr. O'Brien to state yet again for the record, and for the benefit of Professor Whelan and his colleagues, the HSE position in respect of the topping-up of these salaries. Will he state the position clearly and succinctly?
- 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: For the purpose of clarity, please state that Government policy.
- 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 Professor Whelan accept that that is a fairly clear-cut statement on public pay?
- 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 will come to that. Professor Whelan spoke of the public interest, but let us now consider public confidence. It is important that somebody such as the Professor state categorically at a meeting such as this that he understands absolutely the necessity to observe Government policy in respect of public service. He may not like it and those involved may not like it, but that is a separate...
- 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: Did the group review the legal situation? Did it get advice from someone else or is that still its current view?
- 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; hold on a second. The professor has said St. Vincent's Healthcare Group needs to get the HSE to agree it is compliant. The HSE does not accept it is compliant. The professor is really sticking in his heels here.
- 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: Can the group not simply say that it has not been compliant? Can it not just say that it recognises it has not been compliant-----
- 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: -----and that it wishes to be compliant?
- 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: Be reasonable about this. It is very clear to all of us that the group has not been compliant. It is also clear, from what Professor Whelan is saying - and we welcome hearing it - that the group wishes to be compliant. I want Professor Whelan to accept now that the group was not in compliance with Government policy. It has made the information available now, and we will agree to differ on...
- 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: Therefore, the group was not compliant in the first instance.