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

If Ms Kerins does not mind because time is limited, I want, with all due respect, to stay with this line of questioning. We have the position where the staff are benchmarked within their sector. I am not speculating, as I have it in the recommendation, that Ms Kerins argued vigorously that public service rates of pay and pay movements had to be observed for the staff. Then we find she takes a very different approach in her own case and that of her senior executive colleagues. We have established this and I find that it jars with me. I imagine it jars with a lot of people looking at her organisation that some are more equal than others and that some categories of staff further down the line have regard to public pay policy but those at the top do not. In fact, that is shocking, but it is the situation as she has set it out.

Let us talk about Ms Kerins's salary and the benchmarking process to which she referred. Am I correct that her salary is €240,000?