Results 921-940 of 1,348 for speaker:James Geoghegan
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: I know that. I am just asking about the NDA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: However, there is an NDA dealing with the whole outworkings of it as well, whereby Ms Hardiman could not discuss what had taken place or what had been agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: Please do. I will get my time back from the Chair, I am sure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: How does that relate then to the code of practice for the governance of State bodies that we have highlighted in terms of not having NDAs?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: If I could have one more minute, I would really appreciate it. On the Medical Council referral with regard to the individual who was the subject of the examination and ultimately retired, was there a great sigh of relief that he retired from Ms Hardiman and the board? Did they feel very relieved that that was the course of action he elected to adopt for whatever the outworkings of the HR...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: I am not asking Ms Hardiman to comment. Did she breathe a sigh of relief and did the board breathe a sigh of relief?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: The report recommended that the individual in question be referred to the Irish Medical Council. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: However, the report that has been reported on in news publications expressly states that this could be a matter for referral to the Medical Council. Ms Hardiman, as the CEO, and the board took a decision not to make a referral to the Irish Medical Council.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)
James Geoghegan: In respect of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, we dealt with this issue when CHI was before us. The position of the National Treatment Purchase Fund with regard to how its moneys have been used is that it relied on the governance controls in every hospital that received those moneys. In Mr. McCarthy's opinion, all things being equal, should the National Treatment Purchase Fund have...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: I thank the witnesses. I will pick up where we finished there. In Mr. Moloney's opening statement, he was very clear, and Ms Duff just clarified that point. Mr. Moloney pointedly said, "... in relation to shared services I rely on a letter of assurance [from the accounting officer] from the National Shared Services Office." Was he trying to draw some kind of distinction between his...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: From a governance standpoint, the separate issues of the Revenue Commissioners underpayment and the pension overpayment are both important, perhaps one more than the other. The buck stops with Mr. Moloney as Secretary General of the Department. Was he trying to muddy the waters by stating he relies on an assurance statement from the CEO of the NSSO? Was he trying to draw any kind of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: Not paying the Revenue Commissioners the moneys owed to it is about as serious an issue as can possibly be imagined. Any businesses watching will be aware that the impact on businesses that do not pay the Revenue Commissioners is unbelievably serious. What is the impact when an issue emerges? I take the Comptroller and Auditor General's point on the complexity involved in the particular...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: How much interest has been paid to the Revenue Commissioners in relation to this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: The Department has paid €430,000 in interest penalties arising from this issue. What Mr. Moloney is saying is that the Revenue Commissioners reserve the right to take further action against the Department on the underpayment. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: What could they look like? What penalties could the Revenue Commissioners conceivably impose on the Department in addition to the €430,000 in interest?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) James Geoghegan: Aside from the imposition of the interest penalties, do the Revenue Commissioners have direct engagement with Mr. Moloney as the Accounting Officer of the Department or Ms Kelly as the Accounting Officer of the NSSO, or is it simply the case that they state what has been found in a random audit? As the Comptroller and Auditor General has pointed out, Mr. Moloney made the voluntary...