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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Is that Mr. Nicholas Jermyn?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Who is the chairman?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Who was the second person in attendance?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. McPhillips is the person who has been in correspondence with the Health Service Executive. Were these issues raised by Mr. O'Brien at the meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Dr. Geraldine Smith will be in a position to identify which of the agencies made the assertion. That might assist us in getting clarification on the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Was that correspondence passed on to the Department of Health?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: That is right.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I ask that those agencies be identified individually by name-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: -----that the information be passed without hesitation or delay to the Department of Health and that the Department seek clarification on these matters before reverting to the committee to set the issue at rest.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: When did Dr. McLoughlin first have sight of the internal audit report?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Section 38 of the internal audit report on agencies' remuneration was issued on 15 March 2013.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: That is the HIQA report.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Did the key finding of the report not jump out at Dr. McLoughlin when he read it? I refer to Department of Health approval being sought and obtained informally.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that. However, on this particular issue - trying to unravel what happened and why it happened is obviously a serious matter - did that finding not jump out at Dr. McLoughlin?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: As part of that assessment, did Dr. McLoughlin not seek from Dr. Smith the names of the agencies in question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I have just asked Dr. Smith this question. Was Dr. McLoughlin aware of the identities of the agencies that were making these claims?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Is that not a little odd?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: With all due respect, this is a factual report. It is an internal audit.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: For the purposes of the committee, I find it troubling that there is more than an inference in this regard but a report that agencies have made this claim. Incidentally, let me be absolutely clear that there should be no tolerance shown or quarter given to any agencies that brazenly breach public sector pay guidelines and policy. It must be galling for public servants on modest salaries to...