Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If business cases are to be made by the end of January and have to go to the Department of Health and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, it looks like it will be next summer before we get to the end of the report.

I have a general question on which the deputation might advise the committee. Let us suppose someone was in the employment of the State, a public servant, and retired and moved on to be chief executive of one of the section 38 bodies, for example, the Central Remedial Clinic. Is there a rule about the maximum pay a person can receive following retirement when he takes up another remunerated position? What is the standard rule? I imagine every public servant knows it.