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How do our TDs and Taoiseach’s salaries compare to their continental counterparts?
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How do our TDs and Taoiseach’s salaries compare to their continental counterparts?
And are they really “doing nothing”? TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck is on the case.
Previous ministers have declined to accept some of these payments.
Dermot Looney’s decision to surrender part of his salary has worked out well for dozens of community groups in the south of the capital.
The 17 staff members appointed by the Taoiseach have an annual salary between them of almost €1.4 million.
On the first day back after the referendum result, David Norris has already hit out at the idea that senators should not be paid.
While the Sinn Féin TD said he and colleagues take home the average industrial wage most other TDs and ministers use some of their wages to buy a new car, go on holiday, put it in the bank or buy shares in the bank, he claimed.
Brendan Howlin says the €150,000 salary ministers will earn after Croke Park 2 compares well to the private sector.
€16,079 worth of expenses were deemed to be ‘ineligible’.
A new campaign is calling for politicians’ pay to be benchmarked against real jobs. Aaron McKenna explains why the salaries have to shrink.
The ‘Real Pay’ politician says they should, saving millions each year, but does this understate the workload of a TD or minister?
The move would save €10.7million annually, campaigners say.
Sources tell the Sunday papers that the government is considering capping public sector pay at around €250,000, as cabinet ministers resist cuts of up to €30,000.