Ms Angela Kerins:

I think I need to say it because I need to answer in this way. The group chief executive is responsible for the totality of the organisation, not only in Ireland but elsewhere also. As I said - I will go back through the methodology we have used for many years; in fact, for well over a decade - it has always been the case that there has been independent assessment by experts of the remuneration of the group management team within the Rehab Group. It is not a case of people deciding what they earn themselves; it is independently and expertly done. The organisations which do this are well recognised for what they do. The salaries of the staff within the organisations about which we are talking, as the Deputy heard my colleagues say, are benchmarked, if that is the appropriate word - I ask my two colleagues to comment on this - against salaries within the sectors in which they are operating.