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- 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 the same circular letter to which Dr. McLoughlin referred. Is that correct?
- 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: Does Mr. O'Brien understand that my question refers to events, actions and oversight - or the lack of it - prior to 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: We can come to the policy later. I am asking Mr. O'Brien to step back in time because these controversies and breaches occurred well before 27 September 2013. The circular letter of that date and the work we are doing now represent remedial action to clean up the mess. The mess occurred prior to 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: Is Mr. O'Brien saying that whatever about the Department of Health, which he does not represent, as far as the HSE is concerned, there were no understandings on the side, no nod-and-wink arrangements or informal sanctioning of any of these breaches?
- 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: Where is that conclusion?
- 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: Perhaps we could finish with this point first. I am sorry to cut across Ms. Spillane.
- 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: Okay. That is the audit report.
- 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: Mr. O'Brien's position is that whatever informal conversations or sanctions that may have come for these breaches through the Department of Health on whatever date, at no stage did the HSE informally sanction local arrangements and breaches of this type.
- 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: Okay, not to his knowledge. I now wish to turn our attention to correspondence given to us during the break. The correspondence is between Mr. David Walsh, Regional Director of Performance and Integration in the HSE, Dublin-Mid-Leinster, who is based in County Kildare, and Mr. Nicholas C. Jermyn, group chief executive of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group Limited. The correspondence is in...
- 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: Will Dr. McLoughlin confirm to the committee when that circular, to which he referred, was issued?
- 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: Okay. Dr. McLoughlin said that gives unambiguous direction.
- 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 he, therefore, saying there was an ambiguity prior to 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: That is not what I asked Dr. McLoughlin. He said this circular makes the position unambiguously clear from September of this year. I can only take from that there was an ambiguity and a lack of clarity prior to that. Would that be true?
- 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, by way of response, draw Dr. McLoughlin's attention to page 7 of the same audit document? Under 1.4, remuneration rates, it states that in instances whereby senior management salary levels differ from consolidated salary scales, agencies stated that verbal Department of Health approval had been sought and obtained. It also states that, however, these discussions or agreements were...
- 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 assertion to which I refer is in a section of this report which is entitled "Key Audit Findings" so, therefore, those who carried out this audit obviously gave some level of merit to that claim. It is not surprising that records were not found in the Department of Health because it is stated very clearly that those discussions or agreements were not documented in Department of Health...
- 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: Yet we have it here under key findings that there was an assertion that happened.
- 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 thank Ms Spillane for that. Let me make it clear that I am not questioning her integrity as a public servant nor that of any other individual. I want her to be clear that is not where this line of questioning is going. However, this audit took some time to prepare. I have no doubt great trouble and care was taken to validate data and information and to present it in this format. A...
- 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 figure we have used in the committee and publicly in respect of State funding to section 38 organisations is €1.6 billion. I understand that is for salaries, and that the actual figure is €2.44 billion.
- 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 thank the witness for that clarification. There appears to be a pattern here. At our last meeting we saw correspondence from the Central Remedial Clinic which was dismissive of the HSE. I would characterise some of the correspondence as aggressive. Ms Laverne McGuinness accurately described one letter as being told to get lost. Today we have correspondence from St. Vincent's Hospital...
- 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 fine. I am sure the witnesses would like to draw a breath.