Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion
3:00 pm
Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source
That statement is somewhat difficult to take. We are entitled to ask to attend the people who we think will be useful to us. For Ms Kerins to come back and say Rehab has decided the other people will or somebody else will attend is absurd. It is clear that we wanted to ask questions on this whole issue of remuneration, and on which this whole meeting has concentrated more than any others. That is not just a prurient matter, it is because the health and the transparency of an organisation is decided by how much information comes out. Where Rehab is seen not to be transparent is on remuneration. We have seen that just now when Ms Kerin's colleagues refused to outline their salaries, which meant that we had to extract that information from somewhere else. That information is important, and is also important to the public. That is why we asked them to attend this meeting.
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