Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 November 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority

9:00 am

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We spoke about standardised forms of reporting. Deputy Catherine Murphy might have mentioned it. The witnesses referred to less than 1% of people in the charitable sector being paid more than €70,000. That compares to the private sector, where 13% are paid more than €70,000. The witnesses used a nurse as an example. I do not think that anybody would expect that a nurse who is working for a cancer charity would be on less money than a nurse in a hospital. The concern is the pay of the people at the top. I do not think it really answers our questions to say that less than 1% are on more than €70,000. Could we look at that 1% and get the list of people and the jobs that the 1% accounts for?

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