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

Mary Lou McDonald: Would it be too ambitious to suggest that Ms Kerins would confirm that during the course of this meeting? I am sure one of Ms Kerins' colleagues could step out and contact somebody at head office.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Is Ms Kerins uncomfortable with the idea of family members and people close to her having a commercial relationship with Rehab, given her position? Does it cause Ms Kerins to worry?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I am referring specifically to a commercial transactional relationship, not voluntary effort.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: How long did it go on for?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Were any other family members of Ms Kerins involved in this enterprise or any other commercial venture?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Okay. Does Ms Kerins have any further detail than that?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: When did it cease?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: It only became operational in 2009. By the way Complete Eco Solutions Limited is still operational to this day.

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

Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you, Chairman. I wish to put a question to Ms Kerins on her earlier contribution this morning on the Rehab lottery. Ms Kerins disputes the audit claim that €700,000 was spent on communications, publicity and so on. Ms Kerins stated that the funds were not used for lobbying but for advocacy work with clients. Will Ms Kerins tell me in the simplest terms she can muster what...

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I am not detracting for a moment from the value of that kind of work but €700,000 is a great deal of money. Will Mr. Purcell comment on that issue and on the audit itself and the level of co-operation by Rehab with the audit process?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: I would like Mr. Purcell to comment on the audit that he produced; on whether in his assessment, Rehab co-operated with the process; and on the level of expenditure on marketing, communications, hospitality or advocacy, as Ms Kerins claims?

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

Mary Lou McDonald: So €288,000, according to Ms Kerins' reckoning, is the market rate for her job.

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...