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- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Fine. We have the detail of Mr. Flannery's payments. While Mr. Poole is seeking out those figures, I wish to draw the attention of the other witnesses to Rehab's memorandum and articles of association and specifically, to clause 4. I do not know if the witnesses have this document with them but I will read out the relevant section because it makes for interesting reading. Clause 4 states...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: In terms of KMCS?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It would be in excess of the threshold?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Just so we are clear, I am not questioning the genuine need for the service or the delivery of that service. I am not casting any aspersions in that regard. What I am pointing to here is that the individuals concerned were directors of the group and I am asking, to cut to the chase, did Rehab break its own rules?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Without getting into a clause by clause debate on the issue, I would not share that analysis. I would put it to Mr. Doyle that Rehab was in breach of its own rules in awarding work to members of the group board. More astonishingly then, when it comes to Mr. Flannery - and I hope he does not get overly exercised at the mention of his name - we discover that Rehab consistently made payments...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did Mr. Poole not do a disclosure note for previous accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: In 2011 it was €51,000 and in 2012 it was €66,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Of course, in 2011, it was €11,000. Pardon me. In 2012 it was €66,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: So the 2013 payment was made to Mr. Frank Flannery directly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: According to Ms Kerins's correspondence, Mr. Flannery took on this work on request. He was not lobbying for the work but took it on because he was asked to do so by Angela Kerins. Is that what happened?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am sure that all of the witnesses would appreciate that this was not at all appropriate, not least because Laragh Consulting was a busted flush by 2009. Am I right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It does not appear so. It was so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: No, it is not a matter of appearances.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It was dissolved in 2009. That is a statement of fact.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Would Mr. Kerr not categorise that lack of awareness as lax? That was lax, was it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: The company was not doing its due diligence or its homework.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: What did the auditors say when Rehab discovered that this company had been dissolved since 2009? How was that news broken to the auditors?
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: On the issue of lobbying, it has come to my attention thatirelandfirst.ie, was set up in January 2011. It is a lobby group composed of the great and good of Irish society and is concerned with political reform. Rehab registered the domain nameirelandfirst.ie. Were the witnesses aware of that? It is a matter of public record that the person who registered the name on behalf of Rehab was a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: It certainly is not. Can any board member explain it? I ask Mr. Kerr.
- Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is it not odd that Ms Kerins would make a disclosure in respect of a company - I presume it is Complete Eco Solutions, which is the importation body with which Rehab was engaging - that had not yet been formed? I find that bizarre.