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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: 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?
- 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: If the witness is going to cite the advice it is as well to name the author of the 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: Please.
- 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 I ask Professor Whelan, because the Chairman will only have so much patience in terms of his time allocation to me, to remind the committee of the level of funding, as a section 38 organisation, which his hospital is in receipt of on an annual basis, or perhaps Mr. James Menton can provide that figure?
- 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: Some €195 million.
- 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: Some €220. I thank Mr. Menton. That is very helpful. I think Professor Whelan will acknowledge, not withstanding the sterling service he provides to patients, that €220 million of public funding is, by any stretch, a very significant level of funding. He will be aware also that the FEMPI legislation dates to 2008 and that there is an expectation at all times, 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: We have heard that doctors differ and patients die. If doctors differ I can assure Professor Whelan that lawyers do.
- 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 correct.
- 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: This sounds to me like a perfect pen picture of how dysfunctional the health service is. Many people listening in will pause for reflection when they hear that ten of the hospital's complement of 200 consultants are solely dedicated to public medicine. I am setting the scene for my questioning. In applauding and acknowledging the work done by the medics and medical staff of the hospital,...