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Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is it in charge of Climb Kilimanjaro and those types of initiatives?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: There is also the Five Peaks Challenge, 1 Day for Rehab and the People of the Year awards. Does the latter make money for Rehab?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Outside of the lottery funding - we will park that for a moment - what is Rehab's income in terms of charitable donations associated with these events?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Is there any chance Mr. Poole can get it in the course of this meeting?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The money from those donations comes into the Rehab Foundation. Where does it go? Does it go on up to the group?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I may come back to that but I shall move on because I am conscious of the time constraints. Mr. Poole confirmed in his opening statement that no remuneration was ever paid to a director of the Rehab Group board in respect of his or her duties. I ask him to clarify what he meant when he went on to say that in recent years, certain directors or their firms were paid by Rehab for the provision...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: What is it?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: He was a director at the time of the awarding of that contract.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. Who else?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: I am familiar with that title.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Anyone else?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: Just those two gentlemen. Does Mr. Poole have the figures for the value-----

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.