Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector

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Opposition wants Cabinet to forgo pay increases

Mr Cowen insisted, however, that it was untrue to say ministers would get such amounts, because the payment was over three years, and he added that there was "nothing more hypocritical than seeking to support an independent pay determination system that has served successive governments for 40 years and then walk away from it when a populist argument arises that suits one's case".

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Just who is on this Review Body...

Tony O’Brien, Chairperson of Review Body

Chairman of C&C Group plc. Former non-Executive Director of CRH plc. and chaired the Remuneration Committee. Former member of the Civil Service Committee for Performance Awards. Former Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Corporation, plc and chaired the Remuneration Committee. Past President of IBEC.

John Doherty

Employers’ member of the Labour Court.

Brian Hillery

Chairman of Independent News and Media plc, UniCredito Italiano Bank (Ireland) plc and Providence Resources plc. Commissioner, National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission. Former TD and Senator. Former Professor, Graduate School of Business, UCD.

Vivienne Jupp


Chair, Accenture Institute for Public Service Value. Former global managing partner in Accenture. Member of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland. Board member of the UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Chaired the Information Society Commission from 1996 to 2000.

Peter Malone

Director and former CEO of Jurys Doyle Hotel Group. Chairman of National Roads Authority. Chairman CBRE. Chairman Business Tourism Forum

Noel O’Neill

Workers’ member of the Labour Court.

Where did this lot come from? Who appointed them and why?

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Notice that they are mostly rich guys who ran big organisations and naturally think that leaders of big organisations like themselves should be paid a fortune. Their appointment was a cunning con on the Irish public by Bertie and the cabinet who should know there is a good reason politicians are not paid as well as top business executives: if they are paid too large a multiple of the income of the average family,they lose touch with the economic concerns of the people they are supposed to represent.