Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am aware of the issue of secretaries potentially being trustees as well. We have a bit of work to do on that, but the bottom line is that trustees should not be remunerated for their role as trustees. There are exceptions to that but the regulator will require to be notified and requested for exceptions like that. We have a little bit of work to do around teasing that out but it is partly about defining the role of the trustee and of the secretary and if there is payment involved, to be clear what the payment is for. The bottom line is that charity trustees cannot be remunerated generally for their role as trustees. We take the Deputy's point on that.