Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion
11:30 am
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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That would be helpful because many people would want to have sight of it, not least people within Ms Kerins' own sector, that is, the charitable sector. Ms Kerins will be aware that when her salary became a matter of public knowledge, colleagues within her sector were very critical of, if not shocked by, the level of her pay. They cited research which might interest Ms Kerins, in terms of benchmarking, which showed that the average remuneration for CEOs and managers in charities is €59,000 per year, with no bonuses or top-ups. Most CEOs of charities earn less than €72,000 per year. Ms Kerins' pay is considerably at variance with those levels of remuneration. Is that not so?