A Christmas Present for Senior Civil Servants

[Conor]

Hmmm, have they not already been paid for transformation through benchmarking?

No.

How many of the proposals which were linked to the benchmark increases have actually been implemented over the past 15 years?

Which proposals are you referring to?

[bobbysands81]

Hmmm, have they not already been paid for transformation through benchmarking? How many of the proposals which were linked to the benchmark increases have actually been implemented over the past 15 years?

What ones haven't been implemented?

[bobbysands81]

Thanks for pointing that out.

Any comment on the move towards blocking the 'transformation' programme?

You'd have to ask the Govt backbenchers that.

The Unions had AGREED to the Transformation Process that the Govt wanted but the Govt pulled the plug at the very last second. That decision by the Govt is going to cost billions of euros.

How do you feel about that?

[He3]

The Higher Ups have gone quiet as the Lower Downs take the flak.

[hammer]

Every war needs armchair generals

They will be looking for bonus backpay if the low paid get their pay cuts backdated.

[He3]

Standard tactics.

[Mushroom]

The Higher Ups have gone quiet as the Lower Downs take the flak.

The AHCPS ADC is coming up in a few weeks' time and I hear that there are some interesting motions on the (draft) agenda.

Watch that space.

[He3]

The AHCPS ADC is coming up in a few weeks' time and I hear that there are some interesting motions on the (draft) agenda.

Watch that space.

As in calling on the Highest Ups to give back the loot?

[He3]

Shane Dukes is not impressed with Alan Dukes' justification of pay rises at Anglo by reference to how things are done in certain corners of the public service.

..the recent bombshell that 600 elite civil servants actually lobbied successfully to have their pay cuts reversed takes the biscuit. Somebody had whispered in the Taoiseach's ear.

At the top of the public service there is a golden circle of overpaid insiders.

How did it happen? Have the mandarins in the Department of Finance persuaded the Government that favoured public servants should be immune from the cuts?

Suddenly special employees in the state-owned Anglo are exempt, Frank Daly and his Nama crew are above the cutbacks, while 600 well-heeled civil servants have escaped.

Shane Ross: Dukes has gone native at Anglo - Shane Ross, Columnists - Independent.ie

[He3]

This heartwarming Christmas story is coming into the public eye again via the FoI and Michael Brennan in the Indo -

According to the letters -- copies of which were obtained by the Irish Independent in a Freedom of Information request -- the AASHG wrote to Mr Lenihan's department last May, shortly after he had announced the setting up of a group to review the pay of senior public servants.

It said it had "considerable concerns" about the exercise and warned him that it represented an "important cohort of senior management within the civil service".

"We are also keen to emphasise that we are more than willing to make our contribution to restoring the health of the public finances subject only to the provision that this is done in a fair, equitable and transparent manner," its chairman Bryan Andrews wrote in a letter marked "seen by minister".

"The future well-being of the public service is critically dependent on our ability to attract our fair share of the necessary capability both at graduate level and to the senior level positions," he wrote.

Elite civil servants: We deserve a pay rise - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie