Mr. Pat Healy:

One of the issues that emerged in the course of our analysis of all of this is that perhaps the greatest challenge for the disability sector in particular and social care generally is the issue of the comparative pay of senior management in the organisations. One can have an organisation the size of the CRC, which is a €15 million or €16 million organisation, where the CEO is being paid substantially more than others who might be running a €100 million plus organisation of much greater complexity. Part of the challenge for us is to devise what we have termed a sizing model, that is, a basis upon which a reasonable and appropriate scale is set for different sizes of organisations. One looks at the disability sector and compares it with, say, hospital groups, where the new CEOs might be running €700 million organisations.