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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Has Mr. Cregan had any correspondence back from Mr. Conlan’s solicitor in relation to this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Would Mr. Goulding like to comment on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Is it a legal obligation on at least two of the directors who resigned to stay in place? Now that they have resigned, can that be reversed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Does Mr. Goulding think there could be a resolution to the problem associated with all the directors having resigned and CRC's requirement that at least two transfer over?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: For clarity, is Mr. Conlan, through his solicitor, refusing to co-operate or just taking legal advice?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Is he registered as the company secretary?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Has Mr. Cregan provided the documentation to him?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Where stands the correspondence, then?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: He is quite prepared to do that. Someone should write again to Mr. Conlan asking him to co-operate in order to transfer the responsibility and obligation of the company to someone else. What we will do is send him a transcript of the discussion on this subject at today's hearing. He should be asked to co-operate.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: There is a copy of the reply.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: I will check one other matter in relation to Central Remedial Clinic Medical Devices Limited with Mr. Cregan. It is 100% owned by Friends and Supporters of the Central Remedial Clinic Limited. What is the issue in relation to the non-co-operation of individuals there? Did I hear Mr. Cregan say that earlier on?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Would Mr. McCarthy not recommend that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: But Mr. McCarthy said we should recommend it. He is the Comptroller and Auditor General. Would he not tell them they should do it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Did the Comptroller and Auditor General not tell them that already?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: What was their response?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Will the Comptroller and Auditor General keep an eye on them?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: What Mr. McCarthy said does not excuse the audit committee because it did not oversee the proper level of transparency and accountability that was required.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: Mr. McCarthy is not forgiving them. We must be absolutely clear about that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: If the audit committee or officials of the HSE had gone to the bother of finding out, matters would have been different. Accounting and audit committees and individual accountants and auditors do not assume, rather, I presume, they act on fact. Perhaps there is too much of a presumption on the part of the HSE, which is why this double standard is being applied all over the place.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (3 Jul 2014)

John McGuinness: When he wrote back to the HSE on 17 November 2009, Mr. Peelo stated, "'We undertake that the CRC as a voluntary organisation will itself fund the excess of salaries concerned as identified by the HSE, with effect from the 1st of June, 2010." My belief is that the HSE knew about all of this all along and that it turned a blind eye to it. That is what the correspondence indicates to me....