Charity is BIG business…

It’s an incredible salary for that post way above Market rates and an affront to charity foundations
Shes not the only one there are other charities with outlandish salaries and cultures

It is slowly coming into the public domain as to the level of (excessive) earnings at several NGO’s. Mary Davis’ P60′s publication last year I think shocked many people. I have been following the Phoenix Magazines coverage on the Rehab Group (and it is a group because there are so many companies involved) and in tryical fashion they (Rehab)are attempting to brazen it out. Their main contention is that the salary is paid out of operating profits of the organisation and is not paid out of public funds. Striictly speaking this might be true, However, looking at the consolidated financial statements of REhab for 2010 they record an operating surplus of €1.9M approx. page 54 of the attached. http://www.rehab.ie/about/PDFS/RehabAnnualReport2010.pdf A reply to a dail question by Maureen O Sullivan last April states that a total of €36 odd million was provided to REhab care in 2010 from the HSE. We don’t know which companies it was provided to but as the accounts are consolidated we can only assume it is included in the published figures. On the same annual report it says that 6.3M Cap ex took place and again being generous lets assume that was fully grant aided so we have about €30m of operational grants paid which means that the organisation as a whole was subsidied by about €28 Million by the taxpayer. On that basis alone I think it is disengenious in the extreme for Rehab to be suffesting that its CE’s salry is not being paid by the taxpayer.! the link to Maureen O sullivans question is here http://www.inclusionireland.ie/Dail21April2011.asp#CEO2.

So she has to survive on 234 grand a year.. …wont ever donate to that charity again.

Just makes me sick ,,, my brother works in rehab in ballymount little or no wages and this on on so much ,,,, wonder did ahearn put her there ????

Sickening salary….just sickening…how anyone working for charity could come even close to wanting half of that salary and then look at them selves in the mirror and think its ok is just beyond disgusting…it just goes to show how little the sheep know whats really going on with YOUR money…yes YOUR money people you work for is being spent by people in power for themselves on themselves living the high life and laughing at you all the time….just have a long think about it…

Kerins you should be ashamed of yourself . If you have any interest in what you are doing you should reduce your salary to 52k a year !

Simply, I don’t care what she does with the money, she holds those positions and those positions are jobs that others could do. Others that might need the work. She is deluded if she thinks ‘I give it to charity’ is an acceptable position. It is not.

Charities need to be regulaed and they don’t need advisers to tell them this fact.

I wonder was it because of a public backlash on here that convinced her. I don’t believe her. Her wage is too much. Its disgraceful

Strange isn’t it that a few days after we are told about this person’s massive Salary, that this statement is made about donating her other ‘perks’ to charity!
What has to do with receiving an €234,000 Salary for being the CEO of a charity?
Does that then make it OK to take this amount of money, when 18 people are being made redundant in their workshop in Galway? I think not!
It’s one rule for those at the top and another for those who are at the bottom and that will never change!
I’m sure that this is only the tip of the iceberg and I wonder how much the other people who are in top management in Rehab and in other charities get?
It’s just obsene!

In my innocence I assumed that people volunteered to work in charities. I thought it was a joke when I heard of 234k being paid to M/s Kerins. So this lady gets more than the Taoiseach. Will someone pinch me please.

I can’t understand why she can’t return the money as a “gift to state”. Essentially her being able to donate to charity and other worthy causes puts her in a position of patronage. Patronage can influence decisions.

Gerry Adams is no better. If he only wants the average industrial wage he should return the balance to the state instead of funding his political party. The average industrial worker isn’t able to donate a sum of money equivalent to his or salary to a political party or charity of their choice.

Back to Rehab. In my view, this woman is considerably overpaid for her role and responsibilities.

The first thing she did when she moved into her office in Roslyn Park was to pay for a small garden outside on the vast lawn. The lawn was built and maintained as a lawn for decades and she decided at a big cost to put a garden in her line of sight. She has got the cheek to do what she liked at whatever cost. A bully is always a bully.

Why take a salary at all then, just leave the cash in Rehab.

Money is not the only issue here if the person who is in the job had a real interest they would be happy with a fair salary but 230 thousand is away above board. That is an excessive salary for a person who is heading up a charity. What will people think when that charity is collecting on the street they will say why should I support that . The heading of the Organisation Not For Profit Group who are they kidding. Only for the freedom of information we would be none the wiser. A cap at 100 thousand should suffice for that job.Mabye even 5O thousand.

Pitiful deflective act

I’m not saying this about her, just to be clear. But it is a lesser known fact, that socially adept psychopaths, are known to target charitable organisations. The reason they do this, is because normal human beings presume that people who want to help people worse off than themselves, are bound to be genuine. This is the assumption that the psychopathic individual counts upon. The perfect foil for the socially adept psychopath, is to work in an area where they will be considered to be beyond reproach. In their mind, who would suspect a charity worker to have ulterior motives. The perfect cover!. In the HSE, it is estimated that there are between two and three thousand socially adept psychopaths. We all despair at the elderly patients waiting on trolleys. Not true. Some two to three thousand employees, actively enjoy the pain and suffering caused to patients. Admittedly, this claim appears outlandish. Take yourself back to pre knowledge of sexual abuse claims and ask yourself which is the more believable. Professor John O’ Keefe has publicly talked about the prevalence of these parasites within our societies. Over ninety seven per cent of people are normal and genuine but there are those few per cent that are abnormal. Their mask is beginning to slip.

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If she is donating money to charity will she end up getting a percentage thru her bonus scheme?

She should still feel guilty on the wage she gets

“Rehab ,…… plans to make 18 workers redundant …. this week.” “the majority” of those facing redundancy …have disabilities.”

Her salary is disgraceful – especially when 18 people are being made redundant………… it’s so hard to get a new job in the current climate – and if we’re being honest, unfortunately a disability might make it harder to find a new job….

Yet another example of how unfair this country has become – was it ALWAYS this way or has it gotten worse?????? Or is it social media and sites like this that allow such a huge propagation of material that we have become more aware…………….

Is there a list of state supported charities, and their financial details, published by the Gov annually?

Wonder how much Bono pockets for his involvement in ‘Charity work’ ….

When the Equality Authority had it’s budget slashed by government and several board members resigned in protest, what did Ms Kerins do?
She kept coming to work and picking up the cheques!

It’s easy just don’t give them money

Angela Kerins is not worth a quarter of this money. Another person making a living from attending meaningless committee meetings:

http://www.villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2009/03/profile-of-angela-kerins-march-09/

Just don’t give them money

Oh look a whole thread of people who didn’t know her name this morning are suddenly more qualified to dictate her salary than the board of directors that appointed her…