Exploding public pay rates

[Pauli]

How can somebody running the Digital Hub, of all things, be worth €184k a year plus €12k a year car allowance and a bonus (!) of €24k????

The excesses in this story are frightening because they represent the tip of the iceberg that is the public sector millstone.

Don't bother expecting any political leadership to deal with this. It will NOT be forthcoming.

300 public servants now earn €165,000 <bullet>€250,000 in tax-free lump sum - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

It really is time for change because this literally cannot go on.

[jimmyfour]

It really is time for change because this literally cannot go on.

It's very telling that it's all coming out now - for years the spin was against the doctors/consultants who were in some ivory tower, whereas they are senior medical staff with 20yrs + experience, a lot of the people mentioned in your article provide SFA benefit to society for those huge salaries, yet they were awrding themselves it behind the scenes safely out of the public eye.

[bormotello]

Top civil servants' last bonus scheme cost taxpayers €3m - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

AN ELITE group of top civil servants received an average bonus of €13,500 last year -- just before Finance Minister Brian Lenihan suspended such payments.

Anyone who thinks they deserve a bonus is asked to carry out a self-assessment, which is passed to a secretary general, who decides on what bonus, if any, should be awarded. The latest CPA report itself says "it is unlikely that the CPA will overrule the proposals of the secretaries general".

The bonus objectives are classified as "personal information" and it is not required that they be shared with the public.

[Digout]

Loads of money!!!!! Seems our top public service lads are still on the gravy train.

I bet not one of these lads would get something similar in the private sector. They are responsible for the mess, they should all resign.

300 public servants now earn &euro;165,000 - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

[Pauli]

Yeah, Digout, I mentioned it earlier

http://www.politics.ie/current-affai...pay-rates.html

No shame. No shame at all.

[Digout]

This is a bad joke. Heads off with all these fools.

[DeathKnell]

For the love of Christ. What sort of a class of people at all do we have at the top of the State establishment.
Its not in the same league but this is no less disgusting than the bonuses of the Bank Chiefs. These faceless bureaucrats and their political lackeys are creaming the State of millions. Something to which I'm sure they feel they are 'entitled'.


This is Bertie Ahearn's and Brian Cowens fault directly for p1ssing our money away, for rewarding failure..

[Propforward]

Republic of Ireland 1949 - 2009 RIP, brutally defiled, raped, robbed, tortured and finally killed by FF corruption, nepotism and gombeenism. Sadly missed by her family, the hard working honest citizens who fought hard for her freedom.

If only she were dead we could all move on.
She is kept alive on life support while her executor rifles through her stuff.

[Propforward]

For the love of Christ. What sort of a class of people at all do we have at the top of the State establishment.
Its not in the same league but this is no less disgusting than the bonuses of the Bank Chiefs. These faceless bureaucrats and their political lackeys are creaming the State of millions. Something to which I'm sure they feel they are 'entitled'.


This is Bertie Ahearn's and Brian Cowens fault directly for p1ssing our money away, for rewarding failure..

We have morally bankrupt and egotistical people in.
They have no responsibility but all the authority in the world.

Bertie and Brian never rewarded failure - they reward support for Bertie and Brian and support for Fianna Fail. Failure is just a degree of success to these fu.ckkerz

[blacbloc]

How on earth can you seriously expect this government to deal with excessive public pay when it is itself grossly overpaid and for the main part completely selfish about practicing what it preaches on pay restraint. Look at the gluttony of most of our TD's.

Meanwhile, the HSE is firing 700 STAFF nurses - we need these people more than we need ANY of our TDs or the bureaucrats. The lives of vulnerable people are deliberately being put at risk.

What about getting rid of all those massively expensive VEC committees - a fortune is being spent on them? It won't happen because BOTH Fine Gael and FF councillors are coining it in expenses from sitting on them. Rented prefabs and education centre buildings? Decade after decade huge sums of money are being paid out - decent permanent structures could have been built umpteen times over and still the government won't stop this outrageous waste. Meanwhile children are educated in third world conditions in many instances.