Former HSE CEO Paul Reid will receive a daily allowance for his new role as chair of the Citizens’ Assembly on Drug Use.
He was appointed to the role by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar just four months after leaving his €420,000 a year job in the HSE.
It comes amid anger in some quarters of Government that Mr Reid was appointed to the role, with several TDs telling the Irish Mirror that it looked like a case of “jobs for the boys”.