Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the ratio of the chief executive officer's pay to the average pay level for each year since 2000 and including projections for 2008 in each of the commercial State bodies for which the cabinet recently approved new executive pay ranges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2331/08]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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In line with Government policy the range of pay of CEOs of commercial State bodies is determined in all cases by the appropriate Minister following consultation with me. Boards are informed on a regular basis of the upper limit of that range. It is then a matter for the relevant Board to determine the rate of pay of the CEO taking account of any guidelines issued to them.

The pay of other staff in the commercial State bodies is a matter for the bodies themselves and I do not have any control over these rates. As the information is not available to me, I am not in a position to provide the Deputy with the ratios sought.