Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group

10:55 am

Mr. Keith Poole:

The same situation applies to myself. The reason is that, because the Rehab Group is my employer, I cannot be a director of the group. It is because it holds a CHY number and, as an employee, we cannot be directors.

With regard to funding, we have distributed a summary of all the funds that come up. The Rehab Group is the top entity in the structure. It receives shared services income from State-funded companies within our group. Other funds come into the Rehab Group also, for example, from the Care Trust. In 2012, which is the year for which we have provided the accounts, we would have transferred more than €1 million from our UK operations into the top entity. In common with many groups, a pool of money comes into the centre, and this pays for central services and the top level salaries.

In terms of what we charge, the schedules have been provided regarding what we charge into the entities that deliver State services. Historically, we have not charged senior management salaries into those entities.