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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Does Mr. Breen think it credible that the director general would not be informed by the executive of the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Given what we now know, thanks to Deputy Boyd Barrett, about all ten cases involving American laboratories, and as the person who deals with legal cases on behalf of the State, does Mr. Breen think it would be a prudent decision that we would cease all testing in American laboratories?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Breen would not give the HSE any advice based on what he now knows, that we have ten cases that all involve American laboratories, that there is obviously an issue here, that it will cost-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: The State Claims Agency has not done that yet but it is something it would do. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Who was not running for the Dáil.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Just to clarify.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: He agreed some of them were genuine. Deputy Cullinane is trying to find out which ones are and are not genuine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will be brief.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: The vast majority of questions have been asked.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: On Mr. Fraser's own report, section five states the progress to date about which he spoke. He states that the SCU has made rapid progress across the three main workstreams approved by the Government, and lists them. He states, "As well as streamlining and improving communications capacity, there has been huge public interest in the campaigns run by the SCU in conjunction with other...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Does Mr. Fraser mean online views?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Are the metrics publicly available?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I return to the previous questions on the perception that some of the SCU material, particularly around the Project Ireland 2040 material, bordered on promoting particular candidates in particular areas. I fully accept that in the review that was carried out, Mr. Fraser stated there was no evidence that any direction was given to editors to place Senators and councillors into those...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Does Mr. Fraser believe them?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am just asking does Mr. Fraser believe them?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I take it Mr. Fraser has no evidence of any political direction being given to those editors? Was that question ever asked as part of the review?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: There was a responsibility to answer the question. The accusation was that preference was given to certain political candidates of a political party in the advertorials. I presume that as part of the review, one of the questions to the editors would have been, "Was there any direction given to you, not just by the civil servants or the SCU, but in general?"

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is just that those three or four newspapers are in key constituencies for the party in government.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is Mr. Fraser adamant there was no evidence of any interference, that it was completely an editorial decision and there was no pressure put on any of the editors from an external source?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: As for Mr. John Concannon, is Mr. Fraser aware correspondence to Mr. Brian Murphy, special adviser to the Taoiseach, stated that communications under the SCU would be deployed to support strategic Government priorities and decision-making under an overarching theme such as a republic of opportunity?