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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: 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...
- 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
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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
Vote 38 - Health
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
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
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...