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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: I thank Senator Byrne. In line with that proposition, I want to ask the witnesses when this started. The answers are contained in the presentation that they have made, but I want them to confirm a number of points as I go through it. What year did the Labour Court make its decision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: When was the first letter from the Secretary General in relation to non-payment? When was the first time that this arose?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: It was approved by the Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Where was that sanction sent to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: When?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Who would have got that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: I am asking because the witnesses have the correspondence. If the sanction went in 2008, do the witnesses have confirmation of the person to whom it was sent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Who is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Okay. Let us go on from there then. That was 2008.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: That was 2008. Who was the Secretary General then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: It was for the HSE to implement this. The Department of Finance had sanctioned it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Yes, so that was Mr. Scanlan's job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: It stopped dead in 2008.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: That was 2008.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: So who was CEO of the HSE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: Was he in favour of paying it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: In the correspondence to the Secretary General, was Mr. Drumm asking for permission? Permission was already there. What was he asking?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: So it stopped in the Department of Health.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report 42 of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Service: Discussion (14 Dec 2022)
John McGuinness: I want to explain this to those who may be listening, including other members who are attending remotely. Mr. Carey approved it. He wrote to Mr. Scanlan in 2008. At that stage it began to stop making progress. Mr. Drumm was asking for progress to be made.