Why did they not introduce a law that limited package payments day one in government. FF/FG/Labour have no problems bringing in laws to raid PRIVATE pension funds, so why didnt they bring in a law to allow them to raid all Tax payer funded package payments. They can still bring in this law today, because we all know, there are lots more of these guys to retire, who are in other top-level jobs. Its not that hard, a child could work this out. Bring in the emergency legislation TODAY to prevent these Tax Payer funded payments from tomorrow. The entire opposition (except FF) will support the government in this endeavor… but unfortunately, FG/Labour have no desire to impact the richest in our society.

This state of affairs is so disgusting it makes me ill just thinking about it. The poor are being bled dry whilst these shysters are laughing all the way to the bank

I can’t take anymore off this!!!!!! N it’s a Banana Republic we live in , can the IMF please step in & do a Robin Hood & help the poor & take from the rich put I guess that’s only a fairy tale…….

Legalised criminality prevails yet again in our fantastic country

The equivalent German bureaucrat isn’t getting as much money as our lot anyway!

I wonder what the ordinary civil servant would get if they retired at 65 years of age?

I actually feel physically sick. Seriously….excuse my expletives.now but jesus *

One law for them and one for the poor working bastard

If he lives for another 30 years then he’ll have taken over €4,000,000 out of the tax payers pocket. That’s also probably indexed so it could even be €5million+ That is like winning the lotto.. which by the way is odds of 1 in 8,145,060

There seems to be a lot of these people in the public sector, perhaps at least 1000, which, if my very rough maths is right means that it is about 2500 times easier to become a millionaire working for the government than playing the lotto.

Free lotto tickets here: http://www.publicjobs.ie/

FML.

Mafiosi – all of them

What can one say this is precisely the kind of thing that caused this country to take the nose dive of the past few years? You can be damn sure that if it did not set a precedent for politicians’ pensions they (the politicians) would find a way to curb this nonsense.

disgusting

I’m delighted to see it’s business as usual in Gombeen Ireland !

As a taxpayer for more than 35 years today I am hungry – no money for food. Glad to hear this guy is living well and probably spending his money in another country on holidays.
Protest outside his house as all the protests directed at the government buildings get no results. Try protesting outside Enda’s house or Raoire Quinn’s house and something might just might happen.

The government could have included the means to limit all public pensions to a figure in the recent judges pay referendum. A max of 1000 per week would be more than ample for any pensioner, especially when you consider that OAPs get 230 per week. Bertie ahern getting nearly 3000 per week?. All those clowns who ran this country into the ground are creaming it at our expense.

I see tat the Journal is picking up the spin figure for the package. His severence payment is actally about €506,000 and an annual pension of €126,000. For a man of 60 the cst of buying such an index linked pension with widows benefit would be at least €3.8million and the index linking would be limited to 5% per annum. In the public service, of course, there is no such limit.

So the actual value of the retirement package is a minimum of €4.3 million.

When will someone with a moral fibre rise up and take control of this beautiful little isle of ours

Legal Crime. Thats all this is. Laws made for their own gain. Here’s a law I just made. No one has to pay property tax or any other direct payment these thieving SOBs come looking for. Tell it to the bondsmen pal. Mass disobedience or protest will get what you want. Just ask the Medical Card brigade.

Totally agree the government can shove their property tax and septic tank registration and inspection fee and their ?50 medical card tax and any other tax that I can withhold and let them drag me through the courts. It’s scandalous and sickening what’s happening, it’s about time the people said FUCK THE GOVERNMENT you’re not getting what we can’t pay.

There is no way in hell I’m paying…totally agree.

Pretty soon there won’t be enough money to pay his pension anyway! We’re all f***ed!

I hope the money the irish taxpayers are being allowed borrow from Europe to keep this country going while we bail out the banks, is not being wasted…. WTF is the crowd that’s monitoring the government doing???? All bets are off on everything else… and this is a daily occurrence now …. Can’t wait for my turn for my pension to kick in when I’m 78… That €180 per week that I will be on in 2049 will be well worth waiting for…

Mass protests are the way people can express their fury at this. Peaceful protests in our thousands in every main city in the country. The OAP’s did it and achieved thir goals so any of us that felt revulsion at ths gus severence package…let’s stop typing and moaning about and lets get organsed and mobile. The next time we can eyeball the wonderfully committed to the public good politicans is the next time they come skulking around for our vote. There’ll be a referenum to make treaty changes to get te whole Eurobond idea in place…lets make it abundantly clear to them…..you want our vote..we want fairness and equality. Sort it..

I love Ireland but this is shocking! I keep visualising the pigs eating in Animal Farm!

I understand people’s anger. There is so much injustice and you feel there is nothing you can do about it. It’s the government, the IMF, the EU, the French, the Germans. But take a minute and think. We all bear responsibility to one extent or another. We voted for this government, we voted for the previous government, we spent during the boom because we thought it would never end. There are so many ways we are all to some extent responsible. Okay, we all played our part so where do we go from here? We need to feel that if we have to make sacrifices then all levels of society will do the same in accordance with their means. If this happens then no matter how bad it gets at least our need for fairness will be met. That is what we need to communicate to politicians. Show us that this will be done fairly. If you can’t or won’t do that then we will find someone who will.

Dear fellow contributors, I have read many comments from some of you more regular commentators but find myself tonight singularly aligned with the views expressed here. what can we do collectively? I as well as you all do not buy the drab drivel our government dishes out about being unable legally to change the system…its utter nonsense. what kind of fools do they think we are? we voted for Lisbon twice so 2 points….1 they can change anything they want & 2 they regard us as fools because we turned out for Lisbon 2 & voted the way they wanted. We as Andrew states are complicit & truly have the government we deserve.

sorry I meant Mark Andrew Sachs. good point Mark & good points all! I also agree so much that collectively we have power. we are too supplicant…..we pay all our taxes. to the contributors who suggest withholding taxes I agree completely. the government would shit their drawers if we acted collectively & withheld their finances! boy oh boy they would sit up & listen then

This is utter crap ! I am so angry ! No man/woman is worth this pension, No man/ woman.Especially when they didn’t even do their jobs well, they are responsible for the mess we are in .

I couldn’t agree more about telling the government to go and get IMF’ed and tell ‘em to whistle for their taxes. The problem I suspect is they thought of this and may have found a way of deducting it at source, we’ll see, with regard to mass protests I don’t see that working. It’s gotten so bad these days hardly a week goes by without some group or other having a protest, we’ve just become numb to it. It really has become a disgusting country to live in, where the elite ensure their lifestyle isn’t interrupted at the expense of the little people. What does one high end Civil Servant pension cost these days… well about an extra €1.50 on prescription charges if what we’re told is accurate but what the Hell, he’s worth it. Right? Who is he exactly… and what did he do again?

Ha ha.

Name the place I’ll be there we have to take this country back. One headline 10 a child being taken off of the poor higher tax house tax water tax septic tank tax and this underage pensioner is being given it for screwing us in first place. Let’s stand up to this and stop it now. Name the place and I can guarantee I won’t be the only one that’s there

Wtf!!!!!! Seriously!?!?!?

Seriously, I’ve haven’t read so much bulls?it in a while, … Go on then, withhold your taxes and levies, take to the streets, lynch a politician…. Senior bureaucrats do not come cheap, whether you think it or not, they are some of the brightest and best brains in the country, to compete with multinationals they have to be offered salaries and conditions which on a parity with the business world… But from what i’ve read most people think that politicians and bureaucrats should work for free… Utter b s

It just goes on and on, the gravy train rumbles on whilst the people of Ireland revert to their peasant status of 150 years ago only this time it’s not the big bad Brits and greedy landlords who are bleeding the people dry it’s our own greedy political class and their civil servants and semi state/quango crony’s. The country is being taken to the cleaners by the very people who have caused the crisis and were found wanting when it came to fixing it. Secretary general of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation? Wow, he really deserves his big pay off then, good job well done? I don’t think so, talk about rewarding failure! Staggering! when so many are unemployed and so many young are having to emigrate to find work that this muppet is rewarded with a package worth €3.5 million all to paid for by YOU the tax payers still left in Ireland. The last 3 ‘top’ civil servants who retired will cost you circa €10 million in pensions payments and that’s just 3 of them!