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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Before Mr. O'Brien answers that question, in his opening statement he referred to different agencies that may not be in compliance, and he mentioned one that did not write back. Can we have the names of the agencies-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: -----and whether they replied, are compliant or ignored the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Can that be circulated now to the members?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Deputy Fleming asked about the tax clearance certificates and Mr. O'Brien stated they must be produced. For whom must they be produced? Rather than answering the question as to whether the entities are tax compliant, the delegates should state who actually sees the tax clearance certificates.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Can Dr. Smith state that each and every agency has provided a tax clearance certificate rather than suggest evidence of tax compliance? The latter is the subject that Deputy Fleming asked Mr. O'Brien about. Has a HSE officer seen each and every tax clearance certificate involved? Are they up to date?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: I take it, then, that the HSE has seen all of the tax clearance certificates.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Not Dr. Smith, but those concerned.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: The second question arising from what Deputy Fleming said concerns the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which is being represented today by Mr. Peter Brazel. Has he provided any paper trail in relation to approvals from 1995 to the HSE or the Department of Health? One of the issues concerns who approved the payments. If approval was sought, it was presumably sought in the days...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: If the Department of Health wanted approval or was asked for approval, would it not have to mention it to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Is Mr. Brazel telling the committee there is no paper trail?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Does this relate to the same question about circular No. 89 that we discussed with Mr. Brazel last week?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: It is important for the committee to bear in mind there is no paper trail granting permission from the Department of Health for any of these payments.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Can the Department of Health act on its own initiative and sanction them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Mr. Brazel is not aware of any sanction bar the single one we have been discussing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Is there any record in the HSE, or in the former health boards as this goes back to 1995, of any business case made on the payments in question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Has the Department told Mr. O'Brien of any business cases in place since 1995?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: How old were these three sanctions?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Can the committee presume then that, apart from the three sanctions, no other business case was made for any of the payments in question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: Accordingly, all of the agencies are acting outside of the regulations.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: What is “verbal approval”? Was the name of the person who gave the approval given?