Results 14,901-14,920 of 21,206 for speaker:Mary Lou McDonald
- 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 believe that many other people would share that impression. Does Mr. Conlan accept that the practice of using moneys from charitable donations to top up salaries was wrong?
- 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 is an evasive answer, if ever-----
- 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, I have asked Mr. Conlan a direct question and it is important that he gives a direct answer to this question. Moneys were used that were charitable or supportive donations for the work of the CRC. A proportion of those moneys was used for top-ups for salaries for a number of senior people in the organisation. In case Mr. Conlan is under any illusion, the public regards that as being...
- 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: The difficulty-----
- 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: Given the information Mr. Conlan now has in front of him regarding his predecessor's pension pot, I would have thought that he would have availed of the opportunity to revise that position.
- 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: As a board member, Mr. Conlan would have been aware of this phenomenon of topping up salaries and he would have been aware that it was not restricted to Mr. Kiely. Surely he also would have been aware, given his position in the Mater, that this was at odds with public pay policy, that the HSE had difficulty with that, would he not?
- 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: As a board member, Mr. Conlan was not aware of that.
- 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: In the course of his opening remarks Mr. Conlan lauded the role of the committee in what he called flushing out the phenomenon of top-ups and other maladministration in the CRC. I put it to Mr. Conlan that he would not attempt to mislead or be evasive with the committee. Is that the case?
- 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 ask the question because I am struck by the fact that initially when this special meeting of February 2013 was mentioned he pleaded absolute ignorance of it. He said he was unaware of the meeting and he cited an alternative date of March. As the conversation moved on, not alone did he recall the special meeting but he was able to tell us that he was in Spain and that he had tendered his...
- 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: My concern is not getting the date wrong.
- 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: Mr. Conlan also recalled that the meeting was in February and so clear is his recollection now that he can recall that he was on holidays or away for whatever purposes in Spain. From here on in, as questions are asked, could Mr. Conlan do this committee the respect of giving the full detail on the first occasion that a question is asked? Could we agree to proceed on that basis?
- 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: Mr. Conlan also said in his opening statement that on foot of his resignation from the CRC he had no access to his files. Is that still the position?
- 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 Mr. Conlan has access now to his files.
- 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: Mr. Conlan cannot examine the files. Presumably, in advance of this meeting he wrote in and requested-----
- 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: Could Mr. Conlan describe what the information was that he sought?
- 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: Mr. Conlan requested copies of the minutes of meetings, presumably including the board meetings?
- 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: Only for 2009 and 2010. On what basis did Mr. Conlan boil it down to those two years?
- 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: With no disrespect to Mr. Conlan, I find all of this dodgy. I find it odd that he would single out two years, unless something spectacular was occurring at board meetings over those years which he might want to share with us. Frankly, at this stage nothing would surprise me. Given the matters at hand, with which he is fully conversant at this stage and for which he was requesting...
- 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: Mr. Conlan is clearly a very experienced and accomplished person in his field. His CV is testimony to that. But what I hear from him is akin to “The dog ate me ecker” in response to reasonable questions that are being asked of him. I do not accept for a second that a person of Mr. Conlan’s experience and competence who is conversant with the issues at hand just...
- 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 Mr. Conlan regard himself as an effective witness this morning and this afternoon?