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Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: This was five and a half or six months later.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: This is interesting new evidence about which we have not heard.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: Excuse me. There was a gap but there were also two different levels.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: I was very much taken by Dignam saying that everyone in the Devine inquiry was provided with an extract of the final report and given the right to reply. In other cases, certain legal findings meant the process was not followed but Dignam gave the right of reply to everyone.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: Why could disciplinary proceedings not continue?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: Is it fair to say that Mr. O'Brien disagrees with Dignam on this?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: Prevarication and long timelines raise other issues relating to fair process. The likelihood of anyone being disciplined for what happened reduces with time. Mr. O'Brien acknowledges the mess created over apologies when he appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts last year. It should not have happened and must have been one of the most embarrassing days for him, as head of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: At the meeting of 2 February 2016, Mr. O'Brien was asked if he would apologise to the whistleblower and said he would meet the whistleblower. Did he do that?

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: Mr. O'Brien knows where I am going with this as well as I do. Did Mr. O'Brien ask somebody else to apologise and did they refuse? This is all part of the evidence.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: This is evidence that was given here on 2 February 2016.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: Hold on a second - I am trying to establish the following. Commitments were given there. Questions were asked about an apology. Apologies were given and acknowledged in that meeting. They all happened. Mr. O'Brien apologised to the committee. He was asked if he would go and meet with the whistleblower as part of that. I am asking if the meeting took place because it was part of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: I know that.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: It lacks value if that is done.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: I am not into rituals either, but let me just say this. We are in the Committee of Public Accounts and concluding in the next minute or two. We meet many whistleblowers as members of this committee. When it comes to evidence, we would not be here on this level except for the evidence put forward by the whistleblower about one of the most disgraceful things that has happened in our State....

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thought a book was coming there.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: Let me just put-----

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is a "Yes" or "No" answer, and I do not mind if Mr. O'Brien wants to reflect on it and let the committee know afterwards. I would like to know if Mr. O'Brien ever directed anybody, orally or in writing, in the HSE in any way at any point to ever issue any form of apology to any whistleblower in this case.

Public Accounts Committee: Correction of Record of Meeting of 2 February 2016 (23 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: That is probably thanks for the future.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (28 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: 476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is no greyhound racing at Shelbourne Park which is the headquarters of greyhound racing. [15304/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon (28 Mar 2017)

Alan Kelly: 477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the former chief executive officer of the Irish Greyhound Board (details supplied) was requested to leave; and the compensation for the loss of office. [15305/17]