22 January 2014
Rehab boss must declare salary – Gerry Adams
Charities chiefs’ practices doing untold damage to charities and those who depend on them
THE REFUSAL by the CEO of Rehab to reveal her salary (even though Rehab receives millions from the taxpayer) and the scandals surrounding the Central Remedial Clinic are doing untold damage to charities and those who depend on them, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has told the Taoiseach in the Dáil.
The Sinn Féin leader was asking the Taoiseach to support Sinn Féin’s Bill to implement all provisions of the Charities Act 2009.
The Louth TD pointed out that the Government had refused for three years to implement the Charities Act 2009 and had resisted Sinn Féin efforts to get it to do so.
In 2009, Fianna Fáil passed legislation claiming to regulate the charities sector but never implemented it.
In February 2012, Sinn Féin TD Padráig Mac Lochlainn TD asked Fine Gael Justice & Equality Minister Alan Shatter why the Act was not being implemented. Minister Shatter replied it was not practicable at that time but there was oversight of charities nonetheless.
That oversight, as shown by the CRC debacle, was evidently not very effective.
‘Phoenix’ magazine investigates
Investigative news and satirical magazine Phoenix has been reporting on Rehab CEO Angela Kerins’s financial package for the past several years.
Rehab receives up to €45million from the Health Service Executive and has got some money from the Department of Social Protection as part of a total income of just under €189million.
In 2009, Phoenix said, the Rehab CEO received a salary of €260,000 plus “bonuses, expenses and entitlements” which brought her package to around €400,000. In 2011, her salary went down to €234,000 “although she is still in receipt of unspecified extras”, Phoenix claimed.
Questions by the magazine to Rehab in a bid to verify reports that the Rehab CEO last year received a 22% salary increase have not been answered.
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