Results 13,901-13,920 of 21,206 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: No. I assume Mr. Goulding read page 10 of the report, which states that "under public pay policy, a Section 38 organisation is not entitled to pay remuneration above a rate as reduced".
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Does he understand that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: -----that is the position?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: That is contested, of course, on the far side. I do not have the time to adjudicate between-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. Goulding accept now, even if it was not accepted in the past, that a section 38 organisation does not have the authority to make it up as it goes along?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Right. Can Mr. Goulding confirm that he accepted earlier that the CRC knowingly disregarded the terms of the service level agreement when it appointed Mr. Conlon to that job?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Goulding made an interesting comment about the heavy hand of the HSE mucking things up and perhaps foisting some inadequate soul on the operation. I assume he has no such reservations about Ms Manahan, who has now taken on the role. She came through the appropriate procedure. I am sure she is a very fine individual and more than well qualified for the role. It was not such a disaster...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Goulding's anxieties were entirely misplaced. Does he agree now that transparent ways of recruiting to senior roles are actually a good idea?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I do not mean to detract from the excellence of the work that is done at the clinic or, on a personal level, from the considerable contribution of Mr. Goulding's family when I say that one of the difficulties the public may have had with the operation of the clinic was the sense that, in some ways, it was almost regarded as a personal fiefdom by some people. I am sure Mr. Goulding, who would...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I presume Mr. Goulding's involvement with the clinic will not end now. I presume he will have some ongoing relationship with it. Perhaps he will serve on the board again at some future date.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: In light of that, I assume Mr. Goulding now recognises and accepts that public pay policies and standard procedures for recruitment to senior positions have to be respected.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: There was no legal impediment in terms of the recruitment of the CEO. Is there anything Mr. Goulding would like to say while he is before this committee? I am thinking particularly of the other employees of the clinic who have come through all of this. Is there anything Mr. Goulding wants to say to them about this entire debacle?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Would Mr. Goulding like to apologise for the mistakes he made on his watch?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Cregan made what I believe are three fairly damning findings on the Central Remedial Clinic, goodwill or no goodwill, which raise serious questions. May I check with him if I am correct in stating that his finding was that, first, there was a deliberate and artificial split in salary, in other words, there was a deliberate strategy to evade public sector pay cuts?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: That is Mr. Cregan's finding. Second, there was knowingly a disregard of the terms of the service level agreement in respect of the appointment of the new CEO, Mr. Conlan.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I think that is accepted. Third, as I understand it, Mr. Cregan asserts that friends and supporters of CRC was contrived in a way that was almost to keep its revenue stream out of sight of the HSE and therefore maximise the level of State funding to the clinic. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: And out of sight of the HSE. Mr. Cregan studied the minutes and discussions, and what I am trying to establish is whether that was explicitly stated and whether there were conversations stating that this was the most efficient way to do things to maximise the clinic's State stream of income.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I thank Mr. Cregan. Will Mr. Cregan explain to me his recommendation as regards the red-circling of certain salaries that are clearly still out of kilter with public sector pay policy? How many people are involved and, briefly, why has he arrived at that finding?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: It is until 2015?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Why would it take until 2015 to do that? There are only a small number of people so why could it not be sorted out now?