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

Mary Lou McDonald: That really should be €264,000 then.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: So Ms Kerins is underpaid by €24,000.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Ms Kerins made a point of raising it so I want to explore it with her. She is down 10% on her base salary. Where is the other 10% shortfall?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Ms Kerins prepared to publish, even in a redacted form, the report that has given her this measurement and turned up this result? Who did that piece of research for Rehab?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: So Ms Kerins would be prepared to share that with the committee.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: That would be helpful because many people would want to have sight of it, not least people within Ms Kerins' own sector, that is, the charitable sector. Ms Kerins will be aware that when her salary became a matter of public knowledge, colleagues within her sector were very critical of, if not shocked by, the level of her pay. They cited research which might interest Ms Kerins, in terms of...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Ms Kerins-----

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Can I thank Ms Kerins for the sympathetic view she has of those of us who are ignorant of the full magnitude of her role? I can tell her that the public is well aware that Rehab is a group. We are well aware and well conversant in this committee with the variety of activities in which Rehab is engaged. I put it to Ms Kerins that she earns more than the President of the United States of...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I will come to that in a moment but before I do, can Ms Kerins tell me whether she is paid additional expenses or allowances?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: What would Ms Kerins' expenses run to, on average?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Ms Kerins does not have that information.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I was alarmed to hear - although I am confident Ms Kerins will tell me it is not the case - that she regularly commutes by helicopter to different locations.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: That could make a whole other interesting conversation. Let us turn now to the commercial aspect because Ms Kerins has laid emphasis on it. I wish to ask about one specific commercial venture and ask Ms Kerins to shed some light on it. Rehab had a relationship with an organisation called Complete Eco Solutions Limited. I checked it today and it is currently described as being involved in...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: That is not what I am asking.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: If Ms Kerins does not mind because time is limited, I want, with all due respect, to stay with this line of questioning. We have the position where the staff are benchmarked within their sector. I am not speculating, as I have it in the recommendation, that Ms Kerins argued vigorously that public service rates of pay and pay movements had to be observed for the staff. Then we find she...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: The first thing that jumped out at me was that it represented an increase of €6,000 from the previous year. Some of her colleagues referred to cutbacks. She also made reference to them, pay moderation and so on. How does she account for an increase of €6,000 for herself?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I realise that.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: What about the €6,000 increase?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: What I would like Ms Kerins to do is to explain briefly and clearly in laywoman's language how she accounts for an increase of €6,000 at a time of cutbacks and pay moderation in her organisation?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Some €240,000.