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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Is any system in place when organisations come in late with accounts and present them six months behind time? Is there some procedure in place to fine them?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: It would be useful if we had a chance to read the documentation and ask questions on it.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: We will not have a chance to scrutinise it.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: We are almost four hours questioning the witnesses and I am none the wiser. There are a lot of questions still to be answered on governance, efficiencies and how money is spent - €3.5 billion between 1,750 charitable organisations. It is a major ask. Console has proven what can be going on if something is going on behind the scenes. There are still many questions to be asked....

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Mr. O'Brien did say that; it is what I have written down here. Maybe I misinterpreted it.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: With regard to a report you gave, we know there were eight different organisations, groups or businesses - whatever one would like to call them - under Console. How satisfied is Mr. O'Brien that the money spent by the HSE under section 39 went where it was supposed to go and was not spent in another jurisdiction outside Ireland? I say this in the context of the Console branch set up in the...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Did Mr. O'Brien know about the other businesses or establishments there, the other six or seven? How were they tied up in funding? Did the HSE actually have any knowledge of these parts of the organisation and in what way they were spending the money? Under whose remit was it to check this out?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: That is not answering the question I asked.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I will come back to the original question. Is Mr. O'Brien sure that the moneys - which were increased by the HSE by 18% in 2012, 36% in 2013 and by 43% in 2014 and I do not know by what percentage in 2015 - were spent accordingly and that proper procedures were in place?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I may have to ask the same questions. Sorry about that.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Under the service level agreements - and I did not know this until today - the HSE had other powers that it could have used. It also keeps telling us that the internal audit in 2015 was the first real procedure that was put in place to check what was going on in Console.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Mr. O'Brien can answer in a minute. Why did the HSE not use the other powers it had? As my colleagues have asked in questions here today, red flags were raised on numerous occasions in Console's 14 years, particularly from 2005 when the HSE started grant-aiding the charity. It was known. Why did the HSE not use the powers it had under the service level agreements to actually go in and...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Is the witness sorry now that the HSE did not use its other powers that would have allowed it to go in like a raid and check and take out material? That is my understanding of the powers the HSE had under the service level agreement - that the HSE could walk in and take over.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: The witness said already that the power is never used. The witness said that there were powers under the-----

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: It was the wrong word.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: "Raid" was not the proper word to use. Gardaí would be used to perform a raid; I understand that. With regard to the non-co-operation by the CEO of Console, the chairperson and the external auditor, I presume Console hires an external auditor as a consultant to perform its audits, as most private businesses do every year, and then to give the books over to the HSE for scrutiny. Are...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: The external audited accounts were not exact. There were discrepancies or omissions in them.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I know we all have to be careful what we say; we have been warned about that. After 11 years of grant aid and payments of public money to Console - and I understand he has been asked this question several times - is Mr. O'Brien happy that the HSE did everything in its powers to ensure there was no wrongdoing or misbehaviour? Is he happy to sit here today and tell us that he did everything...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Whatever name you would like to put on it.

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I have two more questions. Could Mr. O'Brien clarify when Console was a charitable organisation? Was it a charitable organisation from 2002 or from 2005? I am mixed up about when it became a charitable organisation and how long it has been a charitable organisation. Has it been a charitable organisation for the full 14 years or for part of that time?