Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion

3:00 pm

Ms Angela Kerins:

My two colleagues are not public servants. They are not on the public payscale. They are not on public pensions. They are entitled by right - and the law of this country - to their protection and privacy. That is where we are with this matter. They, and others, are working to ensure that there is adequate disclosure regarding their pay and conditions of employment. We have said that we would do that and today we have said that we will do that sooner than we thought. I would like the Deputy to let us get on with that so that we can get this issue out of the way. It is very important that we do that. The Deputy has seen, I would hope, nothing but goodwill from Rehab to ensure that is now achieved, as soon as possible and currently. I ask him to do that.

In regard to the remuneration committee, as I have said before - I have not had a chance to do this yet but I have said it many times today - we are going to give the report, albeit we need to check if there are any issues that need to be redacted, to the Chairman. I am also very willing to go through the issues here today, as to the methodology and how the independent assessors or salaries - the independent organisations - came to their position. I can provide all of the information the Deputy needs and I am willing to do that.

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