Mr. Paul Kiely:

I might add that since 2009, when the issue of pay came up, another milestone was the early retirement scheme brought in by the HSE brought. I wrote to the board at the time saying there would be considerable interest in that scheme among the senior management team and those in Irish Pensions Trust. The board suggested I write to the HSE to ask whether the terms were available to that section of the employees within the Central Remedial Clinic who were not in the State pension scheme, the VHSS. Word came back to say “No” on the grounds that the employees were not public servants.