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18/02/2014
PAC Member Calls For Immediate Rehab Pay Transparency
The Rehab board needs to reveal the salaries of all its senior staff immediately, not in 2016, Wicklow TD and Public Accounts Committee member Simon Harris has said.
The Fine Gael TD said that it was "completely unacceptable" for Rehab to not reveal pay details of top managers until its 2015 accounts are published in 2016.
Harris said: "The approach being taken by Rehab is not in anyone’s interest; it is not in the interest of ordinary Rehab staff members, the people who use their services, or taxpayers. Rehab benefits from tens of millions of euro in taxpayers’ money each year, and it also benefits significantly from its charitable status. It is vital that the Rehab board respects this reality and does nothing to jeopardise it.
"Partial transparency is not transparency. I welcome the fact that the salary of Rehab’s chief executive has finally been published, but we are a long way from having a complete picture of how senior managers at the organisation are paid.
"We are spending more than €3 billion on Section 38 and Section 39 organisations every year. I welcome the fact that the Government and the Public Accounts Committee are working to shine a light on this sector, which has been in the dark for too long. Full transparency is essential."
(MH/IT)
The Fine Gael TD said that it was "completely unacceptable" for Rehab to not reveal pay details of top managers until its 2015 accounts are published in 2016.
Harris said: "The approach being taken by Rehab is not in anyone’s interest; it is not in the interest of ordinary Rehab staff members, the people who use their services, or taxpayers. Rehab benefits from tens of millions of euro in taxpayers’ money each year, and it also benefits significantly from its charitable status. It is vital that the Rehab board respects this reality and does nothing to jeopardise it.
"Partial transparency is not transparency. I welcome the fact that the salary of Rehab’s chief executive has finally been published, but we are a long way from having a complete picture of how senior managers at the organisation are paid.
"We are spending more than €3 billion on Section 38 and Section 39 organisations every year. I welcome the fact that the Government and the Public Accounts Committee are working to shine a light on this sector, which has been in the dark for too long. Full transparency is essential."
(MH/IT)
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