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Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: I am also interested to understand who benefited from that.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: If I may, I will ask a final question that is directed towards SOLAS but I am happy for Rehab representatives to answer it as well. Can Mr. O'Toole confirm my understanding that the unit cost, if I may put it like that, for trainees who are engaged in programmes with the National Learning Network on average is approximately €15,000? Alternatively, does it vary?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: From reading some of the reports Mr. O'Toole has forwarded to the committee, I note it is often the case that participants in programmes drop out early. There is quite a high attrition rate. Is it then the case that the National Learning Network receives all of the money allocated for that year? Is there some retrenchment process or is some money returned if, for example, a trainee only...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: In arrears. Does SOLAS pay monthly in arrears?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: Can Mr. O'Toole put on the record what payment is made to the individual trainees per week?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: Attrition rates.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: I join my colleagues in welcoming the representatives of Rehab here today. Picking up on the point regarding salaries on which Deputy O'Donnell finished, it is clear from Ms Kerins's earlier contribution that there is some clarity around the fact that the bulk of State funding goes to two particular companies in the Rehab Group. Is it all of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: All of it goes to RehabCare and to the National Learning Network. On that basis, would Ms Kerins accept that it is reasonable for this committee to try to establish what the salaries of the senior management are and to put that on record here today? I further note that Ms Kerins, in her opening statement said that total remuneration of the senior management team would be published at some...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: Ms Kerins might explain what SORP is.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: I am aware of it but she might explain it for the record.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: Why has there been the resistance to disclosing the salaries that are available to senior staff members? This was never about Ms Kerins's individual salary - that may have been her interpretation. It certainly was a matter of keen interest for the media and I understand that. It was probably a matter of keen interest because Ms Kerins was so reluctant to disclose it in the first place....

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: Ms Kerins is at pains to describe the division of labour within the organisation, rightly or wrongly, and I may agree with that or I may not, but that is an objective fact. The logic then surely follows that the organisation would have an interest, and there is a public interest, in establishing where that money goes, including the level of salaries. Does Ms Kerins accept that?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: There is a pattern here with the Rehab organisation. That is reflected in an article in yesterday's Irish Independent, if I may discuss that for a moment, and it was touched upon to a degree by Deputy McDonald earlier, particularly around the necessity to cut pay packets and for wage moderation in the organisation in light of the situation in which the country found itself and in which...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: Is Ms Kerins aware that reference was made in the article yesterday, and I would pleased if she would respond to it, to the locks having been changed in the finance department around that time? Was there any connection in terms of that particular dispute?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: Yes. That is a reference made in the article. I am sure Ms Kerins has a position on that and that she is aware of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: Changing locks in the finance department.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: So that is wrong?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: I wish to move on to the organisation's memorandum and articles of association and I want to refer to three of the articles, 33, 37.1 and 37.2. They generally refer to the fact that directors are explicitly forbidden from receiving remuneration from the organisation. That is a fact, reflected in the organisation's memorandum and articles of association - in articles 33, 37.1 and 37.2, to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Residency Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of high-net-worth persons who meet the domicile levy criteria with whom it has been in contact in 2013 in order to ascertain the reason they have failed to pay the levy for that year; the number of persons who are considered to be non-resident for tax purposes; the total tax take available to the State if all persons liable to pay the domicile...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (27 Feb 2014)

Gerald Nash: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money that has been obtained in terms of the Revenue Commissioners' audit and investigation programmes in the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10120/14]