Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have no hesitation at all in saying that the pay of senior executives in Rehab and any organisation funded by the State through the HSE should be made public. We are discussing this issue, in a fashion, because the Government took an initiative in this regard. The Minister for Health is conscious that a large number of organisations receive substantial amounts of State funding for the delivery of services and the Government has pursued a general policy in respect of public service pay that included an audit of section 38 and 39 organisations. That put the issue on the agenda in the first place. The pay of senior executives in organisations such as Rehab should be publicly available. If a body is in receipt of public funding, why should that not be the case? With respect to the invitation to Mr. Flannery, he should attend the Committee of Public Accounts and I encourage him to do so.

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