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- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: I will, but it is not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Yes, this is true and correct, but, as Deputy Ross very clearly pointed out, the CRC is not just a private company. Does it want the HSE to hand it a blank cheque and send it off? It is bound by a service level agreement. When the HSE, which dispensed the service level agreement, states certain criteria must be met, the CRC might run into contractual difficulties, and I am willing to cede...
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: So Mr. Martin is not solely-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: -----responsible.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Yes, there is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: I do not wish to be rude, but I have an awful lot to get through. Mr. Nugent is telling me that the days of the process of a self-electing board are coming to an end and that there are reforms of the board's composition on the way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: I welcome that. I wish to clarify the issue of salary top-ups. Before 1 January 2010, all of Mr. Kiely's salary was paid from public funds.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: From 1 January 2010, his salary, minus €106,000, was paid from Central Remedial Clinic, CRC, funds. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: At any stage did Mr. Kiely take or was he asked to take a voluntary pay reduction?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Was Mr. Kiely asked at any stage by the board or did he consider in his own right taking a voluntary pay reduction? He had his contract, but did he ever gift any amount?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Mr. Kiely never took a reduction.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Mr. Kiely was never asked. I understand that there were contracts of employment, but did the board ever seek legal advice after the meeting with the HSE that Mr. Martin and others attended regarding Mr. Kiely and others who were in breach of the salary levels?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: My next question is more for Mr. Nugent and Mr. Martin as members of the board. Does it not seem peculiar that it never asked some highly paid executives to take pay cuts at a time when many other people in the country were being asked that and when the HSE, effectively speaking on behalf of the taxpayer, told the CRC that it was way over the salary cap? I wonder why this issue never arose.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: This is not about Mr. Kiely, his expertise or the wonderful work done by the CRC. I doubt that there is a public servant in the country who does not feel aggrieved, and probably rightly so, at having to take pay cuts because it is his or her belief that he or she brings a level of expertise and skill. However, they were still asked to work for less money. I do not quite accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: I am glad that Mr. Nugent raised that point. Did the Haddington Road pay reductions and Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest, FEMPI, Acts apply to the full proportion of the salary, that is, the amount sanctioned by the HSE-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: -----and the top-ups?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Under Haddington Road, Mr. Kiely's and others' salaries would have been reduced based on the full amount, including what the CRC was paying from private sources.