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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)

Paul Connaughton: What the HSE is trying to do is cut out top-up or additional payments. Obviously, it is not possible to reduce the pay of any of the CEOs of the organisations concerned. If the HSE cannot do that but proposes to apply a sanction, it will be the service user who will be hit.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: If there are any ramifications for an organisation, they should lie with the chairman of the board who made the decision and the CEO and not with the service user.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (27 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I thank the witnesses.

Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this Bill. Recent years have seen a very impressive drop in the number of fatalities on Irish roads and I know Members on every side of the House wish to see that particular graph continue to decline. When one considers that, in 1997, some 472 people lost their lives on Irish roads and the target for 2020 is to reduce that to 124, this means...

Electricity Infrastructure: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I wish to share time with Deputy Heydon. We will take two minutes each.

Electricity Infrastructure: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: Electricity transmission and distribution networks are a vital element of public infrastructure and that is why the Government is committed to retaining the network in public ownership. Part of the commitment involves ensuring the infrastructure is properly maintained and developed and it is its development that is at the heart of the debate. We all recognise that in order to ensure a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (4 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason when details from an accountant are sufficient for the Revenue Commissioners, such details provided by an accountant regarding the amounts and times a particular employee was paid are not sufficient in terms of proving holiday earnings for students under the Student Universal Support Ireland grant scheme; if his attention has been...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (4 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: 129. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an appeal relating to a disadvantaged area payment over-declaration will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52008/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (10 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: 431. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged areas scheme payment and a single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52834/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (10 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: 432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on an appeal for a derogation under the disadvantaged areas scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52837/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I will keep this brief and continue on the point that Deputy Nash finished on. What reason did Mr. Conlan give the board for resigning his position?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: On that point, is it not fair to say, as recent media speculation suggested, that he had done nothing wrong? He was inside pay policy. There was no issue with remuneration. He had done nothing wrong, yet he still he decided he should leave.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: Can you not understand why red flags were going up all over the place, in the media and among the general public, when the chief executive decided to leave, considering he had done nothing wrong? He made a statement that he believed it would be better for the CRC to have an outside appointment next time around. Can you not understand the concern of the general public that this has taken...

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I am trying to find out why he felt he should go when you and the board do not feel you should go.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I understand that, and that will be discussed later when we try to make him come in and explain. I do not expect you to answer for him, but he did make the point that for a fresh start the next head should come from outside the CRC. Do you have any understanding of why he would say that? Had he ever discussed that with you before?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: You have no idea why he would even float that idea now?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: Over what length of time?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: I come to this from the point of view that a range of other charities are saying that their fund-raising efforts have been hammered coming up to Christmas because of this controversy with all the section 38s. I do not know that a change plan will suffice to put the mind of the general public at ease - to convince them that this has now stopped and it is all better all of a sudden.

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: What will you consider at that meeting? Will it just be your own positions on the board?

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

Paul Connaughton: Thank you.