# Pay Cap

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# L'Oréal approach

Three of the Taoiseach's staff are paid more than the €96k salary cap

His 17 backroom employees are earning almost €1.4 million in total.

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Jan 21st 2016, 2:20 PM

# L'Oréal TREATMENT

Tánaiste's head of staff is paid €52,000 more than pay cap

A war of words between Labour and Fianna Fáil has erupted on the subject.

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Dec 31st 2015, 10:20 AM

# Sound Advice

The 5 ministers whose special advisers still breach the government's €92k pay cap

The government’s breach of its own pay ceiling for advisers has been controversial in recent years.

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Aug 13th 2014, 7:15 AM

# 1:12 initiative

Swiss vote against '1:12' cap on executive pay

The referendum would have introduced a ratio between the lowest paid employee in the firm and the highest paid.

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Nov 25th 2013, 11:43 AM

# Bank of Ireland

'My contract has been accepted by government': Richie Boucher on his €843k salary

The Bank of Ireland chief executive got into a testy exchange with a Labour TD over his pay packet today.

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Sep 4th 2013, 3:03 PM

# Pay Cap

Irish life CEO remuneration breaches government's pay cap - Doherty

Sinn Féin finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty says Kevin Murphy’s total remuneration package of €586,000 breached the government’s own pay cap.

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Nov 13th 2012, 9:57 PM

# Pay Cap

'Disgraceful': Students slate top university staff refusal to take pay cut

A number of university heads have reportedly ignored requests to reduce their pay below €200,000.

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Apr 5th 2012, 7:49 AM

# pay cut

NTMA management agree to 15 per cent pay cut

However, one senior employee at the State agency refused to accept the reduction.

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Apr 2nd 2012, 7:56 AM

# Pay Cap

Leo Varadkar says €135k salary request didn't break the rules

The Minister for Transport said that exceptions can be made to the €92,000 pay cap on ministerial advisers.

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Jan 29th 2012, 1:46 PM

# Pay Cap

Varadkar under fire after requesting €135k salary for adviser

Sinn Féin representative Paul Donnelly called the figure “an absolute disgrace”.

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Jan 28th 2012, 1:14 PM

# Pay Cap

Special adviser's €130,000 salary 'shows utter hypocrisy of cost-cutting'

The reported decision to pay Simon Coveney’s special adviser €38,000 a year above the Government pay cap has been slated by Fianna Fáil’s Seán Fleming.

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Jan 16th 2012, 5:58 PM

# Pay Cap

One in five ministerial advisers breaking new salary cap

Six of the government staff are paid more than €92,000 a year – the rate at which wages were officially capped in July.

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Oct 20th 2011, 11:38 AM

# University pay

One hundred university staff still paid more than €200,000 wage cap

Three top academics at Irish universities are each earning more than a quarter of a million euro a year.

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Sep 21st 2011, 12:42 PM

# Executive Pay

Chiefs of Bord Gáis, ESB and An Post still won’t say they will take pay cut

Pat Rabbitte asked the heads of the three semi-States under his remit to accept voluntary pay cap of €250,000 a month ago – they still haven’t given him an answer.

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Jul 27th 2011, 8:30 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Should the State abolish the cap on bankers' pay?

Matthew Elderfield says the pay cap is making it tough to get the best talent. Should we consider lifting it?

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Jul 26th 2011, 10:22 AM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.

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Jun 22nd 2011, 4:56 PM

# Pay Cap

Government lowers pay ceilings for semi-state chief executives

But the State’s next round of public CEOs will still earn as much as the next President, and more than the Taoiseach.

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Jun 22nd 2011, 2:02 PM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Nine things you really need to know by 9am: Lenihan voted Europe’s worst finance minister; semi state bosses to escape pay cuts, and a live stunt on German TV goes horribly wrong.

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Dec 6th 2010, 8:54 AM