This just spin.
A positive pointless politically motivated crony PR exercise charity story!
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From today’s Irish Daily Mail:
Rhona Mahony has repeatedly failed to give the HSE evidence to support her claim that her €45,000 salary top-up was in respect of fees from private patients. Despite ‘several’ attempts from senior HSE figures to get information, the Master of the National Maternity Hospital has not explained how her €236,000 HSE salary is topped up.
PAC chairman John McGuinness said Dr Mahony would be compelled to come before the committee if she did not explain her top-up to the HSE.
Yesterday, it emerged that Dr Mahony even attended a high-level meeting with HSE director general Tony O’Brien last month where she was asked to hand over payslips and bank documents dating back four years. After details of Dr Mahony’s salary became public last month, a PR firm issued a statement on her behalf, claiming that the €45,000 – paid on top of a €236,000 HSE salary – was ‘in respect of professional fees from private patients attending the National Maternity Hospital’.
Has the Mail lost the true meaning of Christmas?
YOU decide.
HSE: Dr Rhona Won’t Explain €45,000 Top-up (Philip Ryan, Irish Daily Mail) (not available online)
Previously: My Cher Rhona
Professional Fees From Private Patients
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[Paul Kiely, former chief executive of the Central Remedial Clinic whose €200,000 pension pay off was revealed at the Public Accounts Committee meeting today followed by CRC chairman Jim Jim Nugent]
Chairman of the CRC Jim Nugent told the committee that the organisation was contractually bound to pay salaries that were in excess of HSE levels. He said the CRC had presented these arrangements at a meeting in July 2009. David Martin, a director who was at that meeting with another former CEO, Des Peelo, said the HSE agreed that the CRC was to pay the shortfall to those with “legacy contracts”, who had been receiving pay in excess of HSE levels.
.@MaryERegan points out: Paul Kiely’s €200k pension lump sum is about 10% of *all* donations to the CRC’s charity fundraising arm last year
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) December 11, 2013
‘The Santa Bear Appeal has so far raised e1million for #CRC‘ Unfortunately they spent 3 times that on top-ups and pensions for board members
— Aidan Ellis (@ellisaidan) December 11, 2013
Another can of worms opened in health services: Shane Ross reveals CRC is paying Mater 669,000 a year to administer phantom pension scheme
— Mary Regan (@MaryERegan) December 11, 2013
Former CRC Chief Executive received €200,000 pension payout (RTE)
Earlier: The Good Charities Guide
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
THE HSE last night contradicted reports that Dr Rhona Mahony’s €45,000 salary top-up was her earnings from treating private patients. In fact, the extra payment to the Master of Holles Street was derived from ‘rents, licence fees and other income’, a Dáil committee was told.
Yesterday, Geraldine Smith, assistant national director of the HSE, told the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee that when she asked the source of privately-funded payments to Holles Street managers, she was told: ‘External funded equals private funded, including rents, licence fees, other incomes’.
‘I’m not going to refer to any particular person, there were four externally funded – there were four private allowances which were described as being externally funded.’
Ms Smith did not indicate that she was referring specifically to Dr Mahony as one of those four. She said: ‘When I asked them to specify the elements of the private sources, they gave the definition: external funded equals private funded, including rents, licence fees, other incomes. All I can say is what the National Maternity Hospital has provided to me (which) is that private funds come from licences, other income etc. They haven’t said it was from private patients. They haven’t dealt with that level of specificity.’
Last night a spokesman for Ms Mahony said she had nothing further to add at this time.
HSE: Dr Rhona’s €45K Top-up was not patient fees (Ferghal Blaney, Irish Daily Mail) (not available online)
Previously: Professional Fees From Private Patients
That’s Why They Call It Fundraising
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
(Dr Rhona Mahony with James Reilly, Minister for Health).
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RTÉ reports:
“National Maternity Hospital Master Dr Rhona Mahony [above] has said her remuneration is strictly in line with the contract she has with the hospital and is in compliance with public service pay requirements. In a statement, Dr Mahony said the additional €45,000 paid to her did not come from the health service or any other source, including fundraising and charitable donations.
“She said it was from professional fees from private patients attending the National Maternity Hospital. Dr Mahony said her contract allows her to provide clinical care to private patients, as is the case with all consultants in the Irish health service who have the same consultant contract as she does. She said she had been I “personally vilified over the last few days.” “This has been utterly unwarranted,” the statement concludes.”
Utterly.
Mahony: No extra remuneration from health service (RTÉ)
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
Dr Rhona Mahony, Master of the National Maternity Hospital is getting a ‘privately funded’ top-up of €45,000 in addition to her salary and allowances of more than €236,000)
Mr Kenny [in the Dail this afternoon] said of the of the 44 agencies involved in the HSE audit, seven had replied to say they were compliant, 13 were non-compliant and others either needed more time to respond or needed legal advice.
Mr Kenny said the same rules should apply to senior managers as to those on the frontline.
He was reacting to reports that ten of the country’s State-funded voluntary hospitals and health agencies are breaching official Government policy on pay for senior executives.
Govt ‘will not tolerate’ pay top-ups – Kenny (RTE)
Earlier: That’s Why They Call It Fundraising
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile…
Well now – of all the CEO/Masters re top-up – the Independent and RTE News picture the only woman, and yes – she is my sister. Sexist much?
— Jane Mahony (@JaneMahony) November 19, 2013
Oh.