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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: Precisely.
- 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: Am I correct in stating that this dates from 27 September 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: Okay. However, the position prior to that was not as crystal clear as that?
- 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: It is clearly their view that it was not and it is also absolutely clear that these people have gone to the trouble - unsurprisingly - to take legal advice on the matter concerned. May I again put the question. I am presuming that the HSE through your office or the office of the other Mr. O'Brien, equally have legal advice on this issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: That is fair enough. I presume the HSE and Mr. O'Brien, if he is the appropriate person in the HSE, given the current controversy with St. Vincent's, and bearing in mind their previous letters of 29 October and 19 November 2013, this did not happen overnight, telling him where to go, that given the service level agreement, given the fact that these people have "lawyered up" on the issue,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that but can Dr. McLoughlin understand the concern that I have, namely, that collectively the system has singularly failed to resolve this matter. The evidence of that is that we are sitting in this committee room again dealing with these issues. The reality is, and the witnesses have conceded the point, that whatever about what was said in September 2013, prior to that date...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
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Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: In fairness to everybody concerned and to the general public watching this absolutely shambolic episode which is a very dangerous episode for very good organisations, that is not a very good answer. We find ourselves post the audit, post hearings, post the public controversy in a position in which we are still on an information seeking exercise and relying on the goodwill and the decision of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: The audit would suggest that perhaps if not in those particular instances but in others, there was some form of informal sanction given for those payments. We have correspondence from St. Vincent's Hospital dated 29 October and 19 November addressed to Mr. Barry O'Brien. Am I correct to presume that Mr. O'Brien responded to these letters?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: We will take this one step at a time. Mr. O'Brien received quite a lengthy letter on 29 October 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: He then received a further letter on 19 November to which he did not reply. I am trying to establish the facts.
- 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: Do we have sight of that letter?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: That would have added to the completeness of the information. Mr. O'Brien then received a further letter from Mr. John McPhillips, director of HR dated 19 November 2013. Did Mr. O'Brien respond to him on that occasion?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Is this the document from 27 September 2013?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I appreciate that, yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Certainly and that is the position as and from three months ago and no doubt, that is what the Department will seek to achieve going forward. I am not questioning that. We are now looking back on arrangements that were struck, payments that were made and contracts that were signed in the past. I am suggesting to Dr. McLoughlin, as is validated in the audited report, that there was...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: I would encourage them to do so. The audit does not specify examples. I should emphasise that in one of its key findings on remuneration rates it refers to instances where "senior management salary rates differed" and to agencies. The fact that the report refers to instances and agencies in the plural suggests that more than one agency reported this particular experience. I am inclined,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: It is worth stating for the record that it is very clear from the report that it was Department of Health approval. I do not know if that indicates that these arrangements or discussions happened prior to the establishment of the HSE. I am not sure if that is the case but perhaps Mr. O'Brien would like to comment on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: Can I ask Mr. O'Brien, for the purposes of clarity, what document he is quoting from?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (19 Dec 2013) Mary Lou McDonald: For the information of this committee, what is the date of issue of that document?