Enda Kenny - wages ? opinion piece true ?

excaliburhc

my apologies if this has already been linked to - couldnt find any reference to this particular opinion piece from Gene Kerrigan.

ignore your feelings on the paper and the commentator - its the figures i am interested in.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/gene-kerrigan/gene-kerrigan-top-people-milk-system-while-we-suffer-2982492.html

part i am interested in is
"And what of our Dear Leader, the noble Enda? The noble Enda is on €200,000 a year, a mere €28,000 more than British PM David Cameron (who earns the equivalent of €172,000). Now, there's patriotism for you.

Mr Noonan and Mr Howlin have taken patriotic cuts, bringing them down to a mere €169,000 each. I bet you're wondering what US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, earns? Tim's the American equivalent of Mr Noonan. And Tim, since you ask, is on $191,300. Which is €150,400.

The head of our Central Bank, that nice Professor Patrick Honohan, took a patriotic pay cut to €276,000. His US equivalent, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, is on $199,700, which is €157,000."

i am just wondering are these figures correct ? with all the talk of belt tightening and how he has taken a pay cut is he still earning more then his British equivalent ? and if so how is it justified ? . I understand the troika is only interested in getting its money back but surely rather then just selling state assets they should be forcing through meaningful change of entitlements / expenditure to make sure we are able to meet targets repeatably ?

Doc Ruby

Hair dye ain't cheap these days.

dxhound2005

He could get a job with Paddy Power. They're on good money.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/kfojcwkfauau/rss2/

DrumSteve

But if we don;t pay high amounts of money we won't get the best people for the job.

dxhound2005

Sinn Fein TD's have the right idea. They only draw the average industrial wage. I propose that they should be paid only this amount, it won't leave them any worse off.

SeaFields

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Sinn Fein TD's have the right idea. They only draw the average industrial wage.

For themselves tho and give the rest to the party i think? So it costs the taxpayer the same.

MidlandsM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Sinn Fein TD's have the right idea. They only draw the average industrial wage. I propose that they should be paid only this amount, it won't leave them any worse off.

and where does the rest of their wages go? ...to fund diesel Laundering?;)

AnonoBoy

His faberge egg addiction is where most of that cash goes.

Rob Nulty

In fairness to enda he does a very hard job.

dxhound2005

SeaFields wrote: »

For themselves tho and give the rest to the party i think? So it costs the taxpayer the same.

The party has lots of money. The taxpayer doesn't need to be paying them more than it takes for their TD's to do their job.

ejmaztec

Politicians would cost us a lot less if they were paid by results.

Mr Benevolent

DrumSteve wrote: »

But if we don;t pay high amounts of money we won't get the best people for the job.

I see what you did there.

ilovesleep

Rob Nulty wrote: »

In fairness to enda he does a very hard job.

At protecting Maggot Ahern. Why is he sitting on the Mahon tribunal report and not pushing for its release?

At protecting his own pockets too.

giles lynchwood

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Hair dye ain't cheap these days.

So what's baldy noonan's excuse.

dxhound2005

Rob Nulty wrote: »

In fairness to enda he does a very hard job.

Obviously not has hard as the guys at Paddy Power. They get 5 or 6 times as much as Enda for taking money from stupid people.

Cee-Jay-Cee

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Sinn Fein TD's have the right idea. They only draw the average industrial wage. I propose that they should be paid only this amount, it won't leave them any worse off.

Thats a bit of an insult to industrial workers who i'm sure would claim they work a lot harder than that shower!

syklops

excaliburhc wrote: »

my apologies if this has already been linked to - couldnt find any reference to this particular opinion piece from Gene Kerrigan.

ignore your feelings on the paper and the commentator - its the figures i am interested in.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/gene-kerrigan/gene-kerrigan-top-people-milk-system-while-we-suffer-2982492.html

part i am interested in is
"And what of our Dear Leader, the noble Enda? The noble Enda is on €200,000 a year, a mere €28,000 more than British PM David Cameron (who earns the equivalent of €172,000). Now, there's patriotism for you.

Mr Noonan and Mr Howlin have taken patriotic cuts, bringing them down to a mere €169,000 each. I bet you're wondering what US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, earns? Tim's the American equivalent of Mr Noonan. And Tim, since you ask, is on $191,300. Which is €150,400.

The head of our Central Bank, that nice Professor Patrick Honohan, took a patriotic pay cut to €276,000. His US equivalent, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, is on $199,700, which is €157,000."

i am just wondering are these figures correct ? with all the talk of belt tightening and how he has taken a pay cut is he still earning more then his British equivalent ? and if so how is it justified ? . I understand the troika is only interested in getting its money back but surely rather then just selling state assets they should be forcing through meaningful change of entitlements / expenditure to make sure we are able to meet targets repeatably ?

Go back a few years to Bertie and the differences between the British PM and the Taoiseach were much much greater. 28,000 is a drop in the ocean.

Also while we are comparing benefits. David Cameron lives in Number 10 Downing Street and holidays in Chequers. Enda Kenny lives in Stewards Lodge and last year holidayed with his family in Co. Kerry. 28k extra but you have to go to Kerry, or 28k less and you get to hang out at Chequers? I know which I would pick.

ballsymchugh

syklops wrote: »

Go back a few years to Bertie and the differences between the British PM and the Taoiseach were much much greater. 28,000 is a drop in the ocean.

Also while we are comparing benefits. David Cameron lives in Number 10 Downing Street and holidays in Chequers. Enda Kenny lives in Stewards Lodge and last year holidayed with his family in Co. Kerry. 28k extra but you have to go to Kerry, or 28k less and you get to hang out at Chequers? I know which I would pick.

that was bertie's pathetic excuse alright, he d-d-d-d-d-d-d-didn't get a nice house along with the job, so he supplemented his pay packet. enda kenny has cut that back considerably, even if it still is higher than some would like it to be.