Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not wish to totally exasperate everyone with this line of questioning, but every public and civil servant who had to come into line with the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation also had a contractual relationship with his or her employer and legitimate expectations in terms of his or her pay and conditions and so on and so forth. There was no wiggle room for them to get out of that. With all due respect, some of them were earning only a fraction of what Mr. Jermyn takes home. As an entity that is in receipt of State funding, I suggest that for future reference - if the configuration continues as it is - the group should be alert at all times when signing into contractual relationships with anybody that so long as the group is in receipt of public funds, it is absolutely obligated to comply with public pay policy. That should be factored into the process at every stage. It should have been front and centre whenever people were appointed. I understand Mr. Jermyn has been employed for some time.

I would like to move on now to one of the group's proposals. One of the proposals to fall into compliance, as it was put by Professor Whelan-----