Executive at State-owned port company ‘received full pay without working’

AN executive received full pay for up to five years from the troubled State-owned Shannon Foynes Port Company (SFPC) without having to turn up for work.

The company yesterday refused to release the executive’s rate of pay. But one source said the executive could have drawn over €200,000 in wages.

The executive was left without a position after the amalgamation in 2000 of Foynes Port Company and the Shannon Estuary Port Company. There was no post for a senior executive due to duplication of personnel in the new set up.