Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are here to represent people up and down the country. They see an organisation that receives significant funding from the public purse and in which Ms Kerins’s salary does not specifically come from the private, enterprise company but from the group company above it. It comes out of a pool of funds, 95% of which comes from the State for RehabCare and National Learning Network. For the overall Rehab Group, State funding is just short of 50%. Does Ms Kerins understand that the person looking in will ask how she reconciles taking €83 million of taxpayers’ money with having a salary that exceeds public pay guidelines? That is the question.