Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has expressed dissatisfaction that the salary of the new ESB chief executive has breached the semi-state pay cap.
The new ESB head Pat O'Doherty is to be paid €318,000, some €68,000 in excess of the pay cap
set by the previous finance minister Brian Lenihan in December.
Fianna Fáil's deputy leader Eamon Ó Cúiv has demanded an explanation, describing it as the latest in a long list of abandoned promises from the Government.
ButMr Gilmore said his ministerial colleague Brendan Howlin intends to deal with the matter.
"The Government has made it very clear that pay caps are going to have to apply," the Tánaiste said. "And I expect that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform will be dealing with that issue."
"We intend to stick with the decisions that we have made."
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