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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: That is good because we are talking about €202 million of taxpayers’ money and when I see an adverse opinion saying accounts do not give a true and fair view, I respectfully suggest that the board of St. Vincent’s could learn from best practice in other section 38 organisations which have dealt with this in a more transparent way.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: I thank everyone for being here. I will start with St. Vincent’s University Hospital because it is clear to me that all is not well. I will begin with Ms Buckley. It seems from the latest tranche of letter writing by our new pen pal that there is an effort to try to divide and conquer Departments. This may be a sign of things to come in how we will deal with this issue at St....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: That is a very helpful and comprehensive statement from Ms Buckley and I believe that is the answer to Mr. Jermyn, if he is watching. In preparing his statement Mr. Jermyn might take into consideration the clear view of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I will return to the HSE. I am looking at the list it sent us of the additional remuneration payments made from private,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: The group is on its own in its interpretation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: How much public funding was given to the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: I will keep going. I have a question for Mr. O'Brien on the service level agreement. It seems clear that when a person signs a service level agreement, he or she is signing up to be in compliance with public sector pay policy. Can we check who signed service level agreements? Does Mr. O'Brien know who signed them? Would it have been the chief executive? Who would normally sign them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Therefore, it would be usual for the St Vincent's Healthcare Group service level agreement to be signed by Mr. Jermyn. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Has Mr. O'Brien seen the St Vincent's Healthcare Group accounts for 2011?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Has anyone seen them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Does the HSE know when they were lodged with the Companies Registration Office?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: I will tell the deputation. They were due to be lodged on 30 September 2012 because 30 September is the filing date for the St Vincent's Healthcare Group. The accounts for the year ended 31 December 2011 were only lodged with the Companies Registration Office in November this year. I believe they were signed by the board on 30 September, but they were not lodged at that stage. Therefore,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: Some €202 million in taxpayers' money was received, yet the organisation does not bother its barney to comply with basic rules in terms of filing deadlines. Was the HSE aware of this and does it have concerns in that respect?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: The Chairman knows and we all know from our constituency work and our communities of the great lengths small businesses and companies go to in order to comply with various company law requirements and to file their returns on time. I have not looked back any further, but we have an organisation that received €202 million in taxpayers' money in 2012 which did not did not bother to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: As this meeting will not conclude any time soon as there is a great deal more to be discussed I propose that we take a brief sos.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: I do not disagree with anything the Chairman or Deputy Fleming said. Those who potentially misled the committee last week should certainly apologise to the committee. The serious damage that has been done to the charity sector was due to the fact that the CRC directors were directly taking money raised by fundraising. They put their hands in that pot and put it into their own pockets....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Simon Harris: It is the accounts of the CRC.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Deputy Eoghan Murphy makes a valid point. The Committee of Public Accounts is constantly being asked by the Government to do more and I am conscious of the pressure that must put on our secretariat. We have been referenced in the Dáil and by Ministers regarding the body of work on NAMA and the section 38 agencies in terms of the Government's response. We have been told that part of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: No, we say that all the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: I do not particularly mind whether they come in today or tomorrow. If they come today, there needs to be a period for us to review correspondence. We cannot curtail the meeting we intend to have.