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- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: Is that the way it does business?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: You just ignored them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: Did you communicate that decision to Ms Kerins?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: Did you explain it and then say "We can't meet"?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: For clarification and to assist Deputy Simon Harris, Mr. Purcell keeps mentioning recommendations. How many came from the audit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: How many were directed at the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: I will tell Mr. Purcell - three. Out of the four recommendations, three were directed at the Department and one at Rehab. The recommendations were almost stating everything was going to continue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: The Department is implementing the three recommendations. The first recommendation says that an agreement shall be put in place. Part of what the first recommendation states is that there should be conditions to end the funding. That is what it says here. The Department did not implement that because it did not write back to Rehab. The second recommendation relates to monitoring and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: Hold on a second. Did the Department fulfil all of the first recommendation? "Yes" or "No" will do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: The Deputy can continue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: I would never challenge Mr. O'Brien on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: I must interrupt Deputy Ross, but Mr. Purcell must attend another meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: He might revert to us on the recommendations. We will not interrupt the meeting now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: Deputy Ross is in possession, so I will allow him to continue. By way of explanation to Ms Kerins, I am allowing Deputy Ross to pursue these questions because she stated that, in terms of her salary, she would waive her right to privacy. That opened this line of questioning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: That is fine, but I want to be clear – the information that we have been given is Ms Kerins’s salary, which was in the public domain before she attended this meeting. I am not making an issue of this but she stated that she had waived her right to privacy in that regard. Deputy McDonald asked a question about the €6,000 figure and Deputy Ross has now asked Ms Kerins...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: Ms Kerins has answered that she has waived all of her bonuses and that she had not approached Rehab to buy out bonuses or anything like that. I am just clarifying what was said earlier. That much is on the public record.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: Whether Ms Kerins wants to talk about her 2009 bonus or whatever, she might provide that information if she does not know it today.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: For clarification, in answer to Deputy Harris she said that she would publish the salaries of the other executives this year, for this year. I want her to clarify the matter because in another answer I thought that was not the case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: It is the case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)
John McGuinness: Will Rehab publish it?