Charities ordered to review salary scales
These individuals are among 33 workers in social care organisations receiving money from the State, whose pay packages have been identified by the Health Service Executive to be out of line.
Others include the Cope Foundation, where chief executive Colette Kelleher’s salary is €121,600, while the charity’s director of nursing earns a salary of €89,120.
The Daughters of Charity Services for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities has also been told to review the €136,282 salary of its chief executive, Denis Cronin, and cease his annual car allowance of €11,892 a year.
Peamont Hospital, which provides social care and rehabilitation for older people and residential services for people with neurological or intellectual disabilities, has been told to review the €96,000 salaries paid to both its director of finance and director of nursing.
The HSE has also urged a review of the €136,282 salary paid to its chief executive, Robert Mullan, and the ceasing of the on-campus accommodation provided to him.
It has ordered a review of the €12,300 top-up payment made to the chief executive of St Michael’s House, Patricia Doherty, on top of her €129,334 salary — which brings the total remuneration to €141,638.
Five other members of its senior management are receiving salary top-ups from privately funded money, which the HSE has recommended be reviewed.
They include: Director of operations David Dunne, who receives a €21,796 top-up to his €100,796 salary; two regional directors, who receive a €20,297 top-up to salaries of €91,577; and one regional director, who receives a €7,180 top-up to a €98,757 salary.
The Brothers of Charity has made business cases arguing for the retention of pay and allowance for 14 of its senior management team. They include the Directors of Services in the Southern Region and Galway region who receive the pay scale of a local health managers, plus six per cent, amounting to €87,989-€106,585.
