Come on Ms Kerins, our money, our terms

Rehab receives €83m in taxpayers’ money by way of State funding, yet we had chief executive Angela Kerins saying “We are not a State-run organisation nor are any of our staff public servants”.

That may be so, but that is convenient to avoid providing details of senior executive salaries.

Salaries, Ms Kerins claims, are below the market average.

That taxpayers money is not used directly to pay these salaries is irrelevant. The salient question remains to be answered; could Rehab continue to operate as a business without state funding and still maintain its current salary levels?

John Bellew

Dunleer

Co Louth