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Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: What was the size of the bonuses?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: What was the size of the bonuses?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: We have received a redacted version of the Towers Watson report. I ask Mr. Doyle to explain something to me. Is this the hierarchy which exists where the chief executive - who is redacted - gets, I think, €240,000; the director of training and employment services gets €174,000; the director of health and social care services gets €157,000; the director of finance gets...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Will it remain at that level?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: What about the director of health and social care services?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Why is the director of health and social care services getting more than the director of finance, for example?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: It is €157,000 on the list I have here. I am reading from the Towers Watson report. Why would that person be getting more?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: That explains it. I want to ask about the auditors. How long have they been the auditors?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Mr. Hogan is chairman of the audit committee. Why has he been chairman for so long? Have the auditors been reviewed during this long time? Has the audit been put out to tender?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Did it come in as the cheapest bid?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: One of the indications I take from that would be to see whether it gets much in the way of fees from other services in Rehab. Would that be fair?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Has it not been the case in the past two years that it has got more in the way of fees than it has from the audit?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Then I am incorrect. It has been more. I apologise. I will ask Mr. Kerr a question. Has the company a whistleblower policy?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Why did Mr. Kerr need to be prompted to answer?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Will Mr. Kerr tell me what it is?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Could someone tell me what it is?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Maybe someone on the board would know what the policy is.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: Can anyone help me?

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: That could be similar to the number relating to the Garda.

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

Shane Ross: I am aware of how they do not work as well. I am also aware of the fact that nobody on the board has a clue with regard to what sort of whistleblower policy operates within the organisation.