Does anyone need further evidence of the undeniable fact that the top priority for the public service is to ensure the highest renumeration for it’s most prominent employees. The Public Service puts the service of itself far and above the service of the public, not everyone is on a self serving gravy train but the most senior, prominent and connected people are and anyone who suggests otherwise is either a fool or a liar, half the budget gone to pay people who no longer contribute anything to it, all the “tax” paid by the public service does not match the state’s liability for public service pensions, revenue by far the most effective arm of state imposes consistent accountability on those deemed to owe tax, zero accountability on how the same money is spent. The Irish state exists to look after those in it’s employ above all else, the facts are clear and yet despite our economic ruination and all the families split apart, it continues, shame on them , they are a disgraceful bunch of selfish leeches.

The perfect solution is there already – if Government have the liathroidi – Tax all of these benefits to the tune of 90% .
Then the “excuse” of Croke Pk. Agreements won’t be long in short shifting all these Government Gravy Trains back to the negotiating table.

Implement the same formula with the Banker extortion salaries & pensions too – But of course at the end of the day will The Dail Turkeys in FG/Lab/FF elected TD’s vote for Christmas – not a chance unfortunately – but they will take it by taxing the poor & most vulnerable !

God almighty. The mind boggles!

No wonder the country is shagged!

@mike walshe – thanks for the supporting info. It’s these insights that keep me coming back to the journal.

Facts and their continual exposure, coupled with focussed public outrage, will force the turnaround this great country deserves.

That’s only the tip of the iceberg! Just think how many other from ex TD’s, Senators, Councillors, Quango and semi-state ex employees who are all getting gold plated pensions most of them having ‘retired’ early. A vast number of them are not only drawing down their pensions but are still employed in much of the same kind or work one way or the other, look at Bruton, O’Higgins, then there’s the teacher TD’s who still get their teachers pensions along with their TD’s pension, the MEP’s with their Euro fat cat pensions. The gravy train is endless for these people that’s why so many of them are keen to make ‘public service’ (yeah don’t laugh) a FAMILY enterprise, constituency seats are handed down like monarchical baronies, the nepotistic culture is all to do with ensuring the offspring get their snouts in the trough so as to get their share of the ‘entitlements’ which the various parasitic political clans think are their’s by virtue of their name and that their daddy, mammy, uncle or aunt got to suckle the great state cash cow for 30 years before them! It’s pathetic but it’s the reality of politics in Ireland. The country is broke, it hasn’t a pot to p*** in but same class of people keep taking and taking and the Irish state is the cash cow that just keeps on giving, the ordinary Joe in the street is crucified with austerity whilst the bean counters and incompetents who have driven the country into astronomical debt and bondage are rewarded with tax payers money. The whole system is rotten to the core, ask yourselves the question, are these people really worth the pensions, salaries and pay-off’s that they get? I know what my answer would be. Nobody in the public or private sector should be getting a pension until they reach the pension age, they should only get a pension if they have paid into it and they should not be getting multiple state pensions wether that’s Irish or European, it should be on or the other but not both. Ireland can’t afford these freeloaders.

I took the boat 30 years ago. It’s at times like this I wonder why did I come back.

Why would we want it back it benifits no one i feel that 9.6million would fund alot of care workers or nurses hours rather than pumping it into a language that is not used in daily life heratage isnt goin to save lives we need to prioritise

Completely agree with you diarmuid put pumping money into inflated pensions or jobs for the lads is not the way to do it.

Unfair comparison Jay, if u gave that money to the hse it would more lightly go on administrative expenses that to front line staff. The HSE must get its own shop in order before giving it any money will help them save more lives.

Nurses and careworkers is just an example my point is the money should be spent better than this

No argument their, but I wouldn’t abandon our language to save some money.

I just dont think it deserves this kind of money

It definitely Doesn’t deserve this amount of money wasted. but I feel if we put a magnifying glass on any department we would come up with similar figures. Change is needed across the board.

Without a doubt but the answer isnt to say sure its like this in every departement .. This should be reviewed now

If we loose the Irish language we no longer deserve the right to call ourselves irish or celtic, we will then become english

because we have no other language. We need to support, foster and grow our language!!!

By pumping 9.6 million into it and using half of that on pensions

Get real patriotic bullshit dosent feed familys

I would be more focussing on the fact that according to the figures provided, each pensioner is averaging 31k a year as a pension

Because ‘this kind of crap’ has nothing to do with learning irish and in fact functions in much the same way as Enterprise Ireland, protecting and fostering economic development within localised areas.

Thanks for your comment ‘Reasonable Man’.

Apart from his comment that he almost fell out of his chair the Senator also raised concerns about the levels of money being paid and who is receiving them and said he will be looking for a more detailed breakdown. It appears your enquiries are similar to his and now that the issue has been brought to light hopefully this information will be provided so that it can be put into context.

I wonder will he fall out of his chair when he receives his Senators pension?