Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group

1:40 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will move on from that. I am happy with that. I just spotted it when coming in. On the Rehab Group, I want to refresh where we are at as the Committee of Public Accounts and where the public is at. Up to now, the general understanding of the position with the Rehab Group, and the figure we quoted at all previous meetings, was that it was in receipt of State income in the order of €83 million, the group's turnover income was in the order of €183 million and therefore approximately 45% of Rehab's income came from State sources. Commentators took a certain view because the State income was less than 50% and Rehab was part of the section 39 agreement. However, if I look at Rehab's accounts today and the figures it has given us, Rehab is telling us now that the grants from the Government per the Rehab accounts - it lists all the different breakdowns of the figures - come to €95,538,000. That is according to the chart Rehab gave us today.

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