Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

My Department has no plans to standardise the rates of remuneration paid to State board members. The rates of remuneration paid to members of both commercial and non-commercial State boards are structured within four categories of fee payment type, the basis of which has regard to factors such as organisational scale, complexity and governance. The rates of expenses paid to State board members are a matter in the first instance for State boards to determine, having regard to the equivalent rates paid in the civil service. Since last November it has been the position that public servants serving on State boards are not paid a board fee payment for such service on the basis of the one person one salary principle.

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