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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (17 Dec 2013)

Simon Harris: 514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide detail in tabular form by his Department and any agency under his remit, any exemptions granted to the long-standing general principle of pay policy that the payment of additional remuneration to public servants for undertaking additional duties is not permitted; the additional remuneration involved in each case;...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (17 Dec 2013)

Simon Harris: 537. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details, in tabular form, of any exemptions granted by her Department or any agency under her remit to the long standing general principle of pay policy that the payment of additional remuneration to public servants for undertaking additional duties is not permitted; the additional remuneration involved in each case;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (17 Dec 2013)

Simon Harris: 650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide detail in tabular form by his Department and any agency under his remit, any exemptions granted to the long-standing general principle of pay policy that the payment of additional remuneration to public servants for undertaking additional duties is not permitted; the additional remuneration involved in each case; the date of sanction for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (17 Dec 2013)

Simon Harris: 672. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide detail in tabular form by his Department and any agency under his remit, any exemptions granted to the longstanding general principle of pay policy that the payment of additional remuneration to public servants for undertaking additional duties is not permitted; the additional remuneration involved in each case; the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Simon Harris: To come back to the issue of the other section 38 agencies, we agreed at our meeting of 27 November that we would invite in the chief executive officers and chairpersons of the boards of section 38 institutions not compliant with the HSE. I have no difficulty with the timeframe the Chairman outlined in terms of having the HSE and the Department of Health in next week but are we envisaging...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Simon Harris: Many issues were raised at the meeting with the Central Remedial Clinic. I seek clarity on exactly where we will go from here in regard to the CRC. I presume we will ask representatives of the Mater Hospital to attend next week's meeting, with representatives of the HSE. On the absence of Mr. Conlon, considering that Mr. Kiely was forthcoming and decent enough to attend yesterday and...

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

Simon Harris: Could we have copies of any correspondence from the CRC to the Department of Health about the matter as well?

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

Simon Harris: They may not be very complimentary.

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

Simon Harris: What was wrong with this round? Why was it not done this time? For the purpose of this discussion I am accepting the argument about Mr. Kiely's remuneration. There was no doubt whatever from what I can see - the witness may correct me if I am wrong - as to the procedures that should have been followed in the recruitment of Mr. Kiely's successor. To Mr. Kiely's credit, on 24 April 2013,...

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

Simon Harris: On how many other occasions has the HSE issued a performance notice to a non-statutory body?

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

Simon Harris: That is why I believe the position of the board of the CRC to be untenable. It has never happened that one performance notice would be issued, let alone two, and to see €242,000 of taxpayers' money being potentially withheld or jeopardised because of the failure of the board to comply with the service agreement is extremely concerning.

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

Simon Harris: I respectfully suggest that members of the board are in breach of their obligations and duties to people with disabilities by jeopardising their funding from taxpayers due to their inaction.

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

Simon Harris: Do Mr. Martin as a director of the company and Mr. Nugent as a director and now the interim CEO accept that they are responsible for any decision they make that could jeopardise the flow of public funding to children and adults with disabilities attending their services?

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

Simon Harris: We will get to that in a moment. We have established that Mr. Nugent is a director of the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic. Mr. Kiely was its secretary while CEO. Is he a director?

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

Simon Harris: Is Mr. Martin?

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

Simon Harris: I have noticed comments from the Central Remedial Clinic, CRC, regarding the Santa Bear Appeal and the likes. There seems to be a differentiation between certain fund-raising campaigns and those of the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic. From where does the latter get its money?

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

Simon Harris: If I buy a Santa bear, which is an ongoing campaign, that money goes directly to the CRC, not to the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic.

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

Simon Harris: I do not wish to put words in Mr. Nugent's mouth, but I am not sure of the situation. Is the only source of income for the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic the funding generated by the lottery or are there other funds?

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

Simon Harris: People who play the lotto. I must pick up on another matter. Mr. Nugent is a former member of the board of the Central Bank.

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

Simon Harris: He is a very experienced hand, if I could use that phrase, and a former chairman of the State board CERT. One would imagine that he understood corporate governance very well. He must concede that there is a serious corporate governance issue when making a request is basically talking to oneself. I do not mean him personally, but the directors of the board of the CRC asked the directors of...