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Heard Peter Matthews earlier he was excellent, it will be 36 thousand million, but Dukes cant put a figure on it yet. If Dukes had any self respect he would just go !
No, Dukes has been very clear, he draws down 150k of the 250k salary for the job.
He's a decent man.
Lenihan made a good point, and I rarely agree with him, Dukes job is to put out the best position for the running of the bank at least cost to the taxpayer. Regardless of whether you agree with it, he belives he has done so. His ob is not to consider confidence or sentiment etc.
Lenihan and others have to take that and judge it in the bigger picture, what the EU will permit and how it will be percieved. I'm not saying either position is right or wrong, but I am saying they are NOT identical. Lenihan has to consider more variables and that changes things.
Dukes earns less in that job for all the hard work and criticism he gets, than most of the economists and senior journalists commenting on it - so give it a break. Even if you dont agree with him, the guy is doing the state some service and he isn't drawing down every penny he is entitled to in the job - isn't that a refreshing change in this Ahern/Callely/Fitzpatrick culture we find ourselves in????
Alan Crooks was made look like a right fool by FF over all of this. If he was decent he would resign and spill the beans.
I find this very unfair. I presume that with all the other irons he has in the fire, Duksie needed the job at Anglo like a hole in the head.Originally Posted by Malbekh
I, naively perhaps, think he took it on to be of some service to the people of Ireland. Undoubtedly there was an element of ego involved, and perhaps the huge challenge Anglo presented, also attracted him. He was not immune to the Stockholm Syndrome however and that was his biggest weakness.
To suggest that he was corrupt, semi corrupt or now damaged gods is carrying the uber cynicism in this country a bit far.
If we are to assume that all politicians are corrupt then it must follow that the whole country is corrupt also.
Lenihan and Dukes spinning this morning, I dont believe them, I wonder why that is. The only reason they are on is to spin their.r side, still they can tell us nothing,
Actually no, he's spoken about it at length as recently as 2 weeks ago. He reduced the salary as he was in receipt of the pensions. FWIW I do think he's sticking it out in an effort to serve the country. Someone has to do the job, I don't think anyone's suggesting he's doing a bad one really. As chairman, the decision yesterday doesn't say so much about him so much as it does Aynsley.
He really does have a decision to make, if he stays on it really is just in a babysitting role for the money. Couldn't blame him for walking away.
Beanie is my anti-drug.
They can give a number for the loans, but they wont.
This is hilarious the thought that any FF state appointee, whether they be former FG or Jack the Ripper, would resign is frankly ludicrous.He will stick it out and get all the benefits that the position gives him.Resigning is not in the Irish political physce, feeding at the trough is.
That what I have the problem with.
Lenihan said on newstalk
a) that we absolutely wont need to go to the EU bailout €750bn fund
b) that we can pay it ourselves.
when asked how much anglo would cost, and stop the drip, drip, drip feed that was killing any confidence, he said
c) he doesn't know, thats whats they are figuring out (21 months on...)
How a & b are remotely consistent with c is beyond me.
He's saying, I don't know how much anglo will cost, but I know we won't need to go to the EU.. wtf???
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