What about tackling TD pay then also?

Will ye for God sake stop talking about these calls and just get up of your political arses and actually do it. I am fed up listening to what ye are going to do, fed up with what ye would like to see, fed up with the political pension protecting attitude ye have. Just do it…….. please!!!

Can never get my head around government TD’s calling for government to take action…

here we go over paid politicians by all comparisons to other countries shifting the focus away from their noses in the trough of free money…unvouched for expenses,inflated pay and pension payments from 50 years of age…they legislate that the rest of the poulation wait till they are 65 to draw a pension…hypocrites doesnt even cover their own obscene wages and benefits in times of austherity

Fingers crossed. But the bankers will spout their usual sh1t that if salaries dropped then people with the right expertise won’t take the jobs. Well if so feck them cause the UK banks won’t want them or take them so let them rot and hire people without political connections who won’t be getting the usual jobs for the boys.

Obama said today “wealthy must pay more tax”, imagine enda saying this!!

Labour now in a last ditch effort to survive and their TDs in a panic as they are staring at the abyss but having a go at the bankers wont save them now for they have beyrayed their voters and took us for fools but were not and we will get our day

i call for labour tds pay and pensions to be tackled…

how is it the leader of ireland earns more then Uk learder USA leader.and every european countries leader .who gave the gov permission to take the peoples money to pay bankers and gov members .the bankers are the robbers and the gov allow it to happen .now wanting the pensioner to pay tax on a house they worked all their lives to pay off.the poor ireland .

@I think alot of first time TDs be they FG or Lab are begining to realise unless they start working for the electorate who actually pays their wages,they will be single term TDs.Damn hard to give up the perks once they get the taste.

Tax breaks for horse’s and let women die,shame on them .

March on the 24th folks. A lot of people on other topics today suggest that there is no point protesting against austerity as the govt won’t change course or listen before they reduce your take home pay by thousands in the up coming austerity budget – they are wrong. This shower are praying that people do not protest in any number – in fact they are counting on it. Ryan’s diversionary spouting about bankers suggests that if the govt manage to reduce banking executives salaries & pensions then all of the other massive cuts to our already overburdened lives will be justifiable & acceptable when that’s simply not true. How do these idiots expect our economy to grow by taking thousands of euro out of every paye worker to pay bondholders & in turn themselves handsomely for screwing every one of us? I will be marching on the 24th as I have had enough of being robbed by the Enda and his wealthy elitist friends. Stand up or shut up – that’s the bottom line here. Make your presence felt & let Brendan & co know that this biased budget is not acceptable under any circumstance – not now – not ever.

Hypocrisy at its highest.

The government before Halloween have decided that from 2013 each and every TD, senator MEP etc will receive €497,500 a year EACH

Notice how this is €2,500 just off of the new governments wages!

They made sure they kept it just under the 1/2 a mill mark so as they would not be eligible for this tax.

Absolutely scandalous!

Anyone on over €100,000 should be taxed!

People who work 9-5 Monday to Friday would be lucky to come out with €35,000 before taxes.

Yet they have the cheek to tell us we have to accept these cuts, yet they are lining their own pockets and won’t suffer anything!

http://www.change.org/petitions/supporting-the-irish-nation-step-down-from-government

How long is that lad a TD, Is it 2 years? Is there any real Labour TDs left?
I’m turning in me grave

Believe it when I see it,

Just sending false smoke signals!

Was Minister Quinn’s brother not chairman of AIB at one stage?

Why don’t we march on the dail and tell the whole political elite that they are now on eighty grand with ZERO expenses and the bankers and all civil servants over eighty grand are on the same,this whole situation is shameful and out of control.we are four years into this bullsh1t and the people responsible are not taking the blame,we need to give it to them !!i read nearly every day comments like ‘we are their bosses’,here’s a shocker for you ,WE are not if WE are being subjected to cuts while all those responsible are sitting smoking cohibas laughing at us squirm!This country is not short of money ,we are flat on our a5s broke,wanna know why the susi are not paying the students?,why the hospitals are failing ?why the councils are not clearing the streets or why they did virtually no weed control this whole year?why the guards are grossly under resourced?and on and on.the answer is too many cooks have their fingers (ha)in the pot for a taste and nobody is serving the food,if we don’t subject our politicians to prolonged protests something being bent will break and the repercussions will unite the people of this land in the wrong way.lets not let that happen.

Well Iets let them know that this is THEIR budget so!

One thing I’m certain about is that if the TDS and ministers in this government go the full term without showing results their saleries and pensions should cease.

How about a 70% tax on pensions before retirement age. Their hands are tied on trying to change anything else.

We need to take action on this, and the complete double standards we observe within politics. The political elite get to retire 10+ years earlier than everyone else, on multiple unnaceptably high pensions, the like of which wouldn’t be possible for 99% of the working population. Nevermind the bankers, lead by example, and put the retirement age up to 66/67, the same as everyone else, and bring them down to a sustainable and more importantly morally correct levels. Until our law makers lead by example no-one else will follow. It is absolutely reprehensible that we have this situation with the levels of austerity being forced upon the rest of the population. Let’s have a referendum on this, and have this written into the constitution. At least people would know what they were voting for, unlike the latest referendum.

Yep just wiki’d lochlann Quinn he was a director,vaguely remember him and the chairman resigning in 2002 when the us arm of aib (all first )got caught fraudulently trading.

Politicians are harping on about bankers pay n pensions and rightly so but are very quiet on their own packages which are way out of line with other countries

take the perks out of political business and lets see who hangs about to contribute their civic duty!!

WTF! most people use a post-it to remind themselves to do something.

What the f@ck does ‘Labour TD calls for bankers pay to be tackled’ mean? Who did Ryan call? his local pizza joint?
And what’s his definition of tackled? Been asked nicely to consider a 0.00005% pay cut?

Ryan probably also suggested to his colleagues a 50cent cut across the board to start with to see how we go. But a cut is a cut so fair play.

The only people, that’ll tackle the pay/perks/pensions of politicians and bankers. Are the people themselves, there’ll have to be a revolution and a caretaker government created till reforms are enacted. Just like the french did in their last revolution and maybe without the Guillotines?

Political absurdity, question your self!