Mr. Joe Lynch:

We do. We set it ourselves and we advertise it. We do not link ourselves to HSE pay rates or models. For example, on average a personal care assistant will get €14.21 per hour. It is hardly a fortune. It is quite a poor rate, but most of our people would not leave because of the money. They like working in Camphill and with our residents and day attendees. We have stated on the record of the Committee of Public Accounts that nobody in Camphill is on the HSE level 8 salary scale, which is €64,000 a year, or above. We have nobody on €64,000 a year in Camphill. The national governance co-ordinator role and a role such as mine in any other organisation would certainly attract higher pay. I am quite happy to work in Camphill at the rate of pay I am receiving because I love the organisation. It does good work and it is work worth doing. Camphill does not have high rates of pay.

I have an information pack for everyone-----