Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I accept that.

I wish to raise the debacle of the pay of the Secretary General of the Department of Health. The Chairman will recall that, when we asked the Secretary General about his publicly stated position that he was waiving a portion of his salary, he refused to answer our questions. Having submitted parliamentary questions to the Departments of Health and Public Expenditure and Reform, I was struck to see there was no mechanism to find out whether individuals were returning some of their salaries to their line Departments. It strikes me as strange that €80,000 could be handed back and it could not be identified in accounts. I wish to make two proposals in this regard. The first is that-----