Mary Moran (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am disappointed by the response from the Rehab Group yesterday evening. Following weeks of requests, the chief executive officer's remuneration package was disclosed. While it was good to get details of the CEO's salary, it was disappointing that the group swiftly shut the door by declaring that the total remuneration of all its top executives would not be made available until 2016. This is not only about the Rehab Group or the CRC. As the Tánaiste said earlier, all section 39 charitable organisations should be fully open and transparent and should divulge the salaries of all their executives. Almost 95% of charitable organisations engage in fund-raising and everything they do is above board. They declare all the salaries they pay and it is only fair that all of them should be open and transparent.

I commend RTE on screening the programme, "Somebody to Love", last night. It was heart rending and beautiful. It was relevant in the context of what has happened over the past few weeks regarding equality and what we want for our society. The programme portrayed how people with an intellectual disability feel about love and romance and how they want to be treated as equals. It was fitting because in recent weeks we have had all the breaking news about homophobia and so on and how people express themselves. I hope going forward we can look at all people regardless of their sexual orientation, intellectual disability, colour or creed being treated on an equal footing.