Results 44,421-44,440 of 46,456 for speaker:Simon Harris
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Yes, but does Mr. Nugent believe it appropriate that he should be a director of both?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Would Mr. Nugent envisage a situation in which a member of the board of the CRC would no longer be a member of the board of the Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic?
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Sure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: I must leave the medical device issue to someone else, as I am conscious of my time. The witnesses can credibly argue - it does not mean that I agree with them - that many of the issues discussed today were a sign of a different time, a legacy, contractual obligations, etc., but I want to discuss the here and now. On 20 separate occasions in 2013, the HSE wrote to Mr. Nugent in many cases...
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: All of that may be true, but Mr. Kiely-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: I want to talk about the friends and supporters group.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: Please do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: I thank Ms McGuinness and Mr. O'Brien. That is very helpful. I wish to ask about the friends and supporters, medical devices and the appointment of the now former CEO. With regard to Ms McGuinness's comments and her quotations from Des Peelo's letters, are the witnesses from the CRC now embarrassed a letter was written by the board of governors signed on their behalf and discussed at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)
Simon Harris: No, it is not.
- 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?