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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: No, I am happy with that arrangement. I hope further dialogue is not required and that St. Vincent's will reach the compliance stage and members wish it well. However, if further dialogue is required, I understand Professor Whelan would be happy to come back before the committee and provide members with further information, if needed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Does Mr. Jermyn believe the hospital is fully in compliance with the consultants' contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I have many more questions, but I will allow some other members of the committee to come in at this point. I will come back in if that is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Excuse me, can Mr. Jermyn tell us where he is reading that from?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I actually disagree, not based on my own feelings on the issue but based on the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the comments of Mr. Cathal Magee and the comments of the former Comptroller and Auditor General at a meeting of this committee at which I was present. The conclusion of the report from the Comptroller and Auditor General is that St. Vincent's Healthcare Group pledged...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Mr. Harrington is saying that the Department and the HSE did not do their job in protecting the taxpayer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Did the hospital board have any duty or responsibility in terms of taxpayers' assets?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: The taxpayer was providing a list of investments, with which I will not bore Mr. Harrington. We have a list of the investments made by the taxpayer between 2000 and 2004 on developments at St. Vincent's University Hospital totalling €130 million. Did Mr. Harrington not think someone on the board should have asked about the public interest?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: The point I am making is that there was an amalgamation of a public hospital and a private hospital under one board and the amalgamation of the roles of the CEO of the private and public hospital. At the board meetings where the public hospital was represented by virtue of the presence of the public hospital CEO, for whom the State is paying, nobody was asking about the public hospital and...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Finally-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I hope Professor Whelan does not mind me moving on because we are a little short of time and I have a number of other questions I wish to put to the witnesses. With the indulgence of the committee, I wish to refer quickly to the issue of consultants and their contracts, which is another example of the perceived conflict of interest. This goes back as far as 2011 when, according to an...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I understand that. I am trying to establish how long Mr. Jermyn was in the university hospital before the group was set up.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Mr. Jermyn was the CEO of the public hospital from April 1994 and paid through the health service at the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: When was the health care group set up?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Mr. Jermyn has been the only group chief executive of the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: To bring it back to basics, Mr. Jermyn is paid by the public service to run a public hospital. My only interest and that of the Committee of Public Accounts is what he is doing in regard to taxpayers' money and protecting taxpayers' interests. Mr. Jermyn might cast light on this but presumably being chief executive of a university hospital is a full-time job.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Mr. Jermyn hit my question on the head when he said that an element of his job was the university hospital and another element of his job was the private side of the group. That is my problem in a nutshell, namely, that an element of his job is now running a public hospital, or the public element of the hospital. I do not wish to put words in Mr. O'Brien's mouth but when I had an exchange...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: That is not even under discussion. I will put the question another way. The Minister for Health said at a committee today, in regard to Mr. Jermyn's situation, that there is only one hospital in the country where the CEO is both the CEO of a public and a private hospital. I believe that to be a conflict of interest and to be unsustainable. Does Mr. Jermyn believe it to be a conflict of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: Will he explain the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Simon Harris: I thank Professor Whelan.