Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration

2:05 pm

Ms Laverne McGuinness:

As the Chairman correctly says, there is a position now that we have to find a way out regarding the other people who have been paid salaries over and above the consolidated pay scales at this point in time. The section 38 arrangements that we currently have state they have to now comply with public pay scales. That is in respect of the new people coming into employment into those organisations. We are now moving a step further to enhance our governance arrangements and, as the chairman has said, we are meeting with the chairmen of all the section 38 agencies tomorrow. We are putting in place an enhanced governance arrangement and a new compliance statement. In the statement, we will look for the chairman of the board and one other director to sign off on the level of compliance regarding pay, risk management systems of control, etc. We will also ask in areas of non-compliance how long there has been non-compliance, when they will be compliant and how we will work with them to ensure that compliance takes place.

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