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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that. You have stated that, but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: You have stated that, and that is your route from non-compliance towards compliance. But I ask you to answer the question, if you will. The professor has told me just now - you heard him - that he approached you and you had a conversation around the top-up portion. He just told me that he asked you to set aside your top-up. What did you say? Did you say "No"?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: So you-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you. To help the situation, I invite Mr. O'Brien to state yet again for the record, and for the benefit of Professor Whelan and his colleagues, the HSE position in respect of the topping-up of these salaries. Will he state the position clearly and succinctly?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: For the purpose of clarity, please state that Government policy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Professor Whelan accept that that is a fairly clear-cut statement on public pay?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I will come to that. Professor Whelan spoke of the public interest, but let us now consider public confidence. It is important that somebody such as the Professor state categorically at a meeting such as this that he understands absolutely the necessity to observe Government policy in respect of public service. He may not like it and those involved may not like it, but that is a separate...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Did the group review the legal situation? Did it get advice from someone else or is that still its current view?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: No; hold on a second. The professor has said St. Vincent's Healthcare Group needs to get the HSE to agree it is compliant. The HSE does not accept it is compliant. The professor is really sticking in his heels here.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Can the group not simply say that it has not been compliant? Can it not just say that it recognises it has not been compliant-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: -----and that it wishes to be compliant?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Be reasonable about this. It is very clear to all of us that the group has not been compliant. It is also clear, from what Professor Whelan is saying - and we welcome hearing it - that the group wishes to be compliant. I want Professor Whelan to accept now that the group was not in compliance with Government policy. It has made the information available now, and we will agree to differ on...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Therefore, the group was not compliant in the first instance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I do not wish to totally exasperate everyone with this line of questioning, but every public and civil servant who had to come into line with the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation also had a contractual relationship with his or her employer and legitimate expectations in terms of his or her pay and conditions and so on and so forth. There was no wiggle...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: -----or to swing around, is that the roles of group CEO and CEO of St. Vincent's University Hospital will not be occupied by the same manager. I want to tease this out a little. Am I correct in thinking that this will mean, in practical terms, that there will be a stand-alone CEO for the public hospital, which is what the HSE expected all along? Will that be done? Am I correct that this...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I accept that. How does that sit as a concept with the HSE? Does it not continue to cause a difficulty for the following reasons? In that scenario, the roles would be separated and this would mean the group CEO could continue on his current salary. However, would it not also mean we would have a publicly funded entity with its top management answerable to A. N. Other structure that is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: That remained their position until the eve of Christmas eve.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Turning to Professor Whelan, I am sure everybody welcomes and shares his commentary in respect of the public interest. Can I put to him that in real terms his hand was forced, that he resisted, and that was evident even from correspondence from his colleague, Mr. Nicky Jermyn. We saw dispatches from him at one of our last committee meetings before Christmas and that he was unwilling and,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Who gave this legal advice?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (16 Jan 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Would Professor Whelan care to name them?