Requests for higher pay for public bodies' bosses denied 

The IHREC said the higher rate better reflected the range of responsibilities involved in the job and said they had the support of Minister Roderic O’Gorman. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

The Department of Public Expenditure rebuffed two requests for higher salaries for incoming bosses of two public bodies.

The Department of Agriculture had been looking for an €145,000 pay deal for the chief executive of a new Office for Fairness and Transparency in the agri-food sector but were told they would have to settle for more than €40,000 less.