John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am going off the topic here. An article in The Irish Times yesterday dealt with a survey on the pay of chief executives of charities. I noticed that some of the charities are funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. They did not answer the questions in the survey detailing how much people are paid. If it is public money, it is a fair question and they should disclose the amount paid to their chief executives and higher paid officials. Does the Department monitor salaries of organisations funded by the public? If we fund charities and they are requested to provide figures on the pay of chief executives, they should provide those figures. The Department should make it very clear that it expects that to happen. The public will not tolerate that kind of obfuscation.