Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 March 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:05 am

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is typically unsatisfactory. It is more of the smokescreen. As everybody on the committee knows, we got a very bland summary which gives us no idea of the basis on which people were being paid, what they were being paid and the pattern of pay. If we get the full report we should get full details of what happened. There is correspondence which specifically shows that Towers Watson allowed for the release of this report only if it was released in full and therefore Rehab is in breach of its agreement with Towers Watson by giving us an abridged version of that. If we get the Towers Watson report I suspect we will get the information we seek. Again, it is part of the smokescreen. It is being deliberately withheld and is not being given to us despite its promises. We are getting no more on the bonuses and the chief executive's salary. It is shocking that people who were getting €150,000 or more during a recession were getting bonuses. We are not being told specifically who is getting what. We should have got that. What we got is totally unsatisfactory and that message should go out to Rehab, that we do not want them to come here again, not give us the full information and just stall for five or six hours.

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