922. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to urgently review the recommended pay packages of semi-State agency CEOs by the Independent Senior Posts Remuneration Committee; the way can it be justified that the CEO of the ESB earns a salary of €410,000, a salary greater than the President of the United States, especially in the context of a cost of living crisis, with accounts in excess of €500,000 thousand families in energy arrears; his views on whether it is time to halt to this hypocrisy; and will he make a statement on the matter. [60364/26]

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922. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to urgently review the recommended pay packages of semi-State agency CEOs by the Independent Senior Posts Remuneration Committee; the way can it be justified that the CEO of the ESB earns a salary of €410,000, a salary greater than the President of the United States, especially in the context of a cost of living crisis, with accounts in excess of €500,000 thousand families in energy arrears; his views on whether it is time to halt to this hypocrisy; and will he make a statement on the matter. [60364/26]

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1. 7 September 2026

   Semi-State Bodies

   922. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to urgently review the recommended pay packages of semi-State agency CEOs by the Independent Senior Posts Remuneration Committee; the way can it be justified that the CEO of the ESB earns a salary of €410,000, a salary greater than the President of the United States, especially in the context of a cost of living crisis, with accounts in excess of €500,000 thousand families in energy arrears; his views on whether it is time to halt to this hypocrisy; and will he make a statement on the matter. [60364/26]

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