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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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His 17 backroom employees are earning almost €1.4 million in total.
A war of words between Labour and Fianna Fáil has erupted on the subject.
The government’s breach of its own pay ceiling for advisers has been controversial in recent years.
The referendum would have introduced a ratio between the lowest paid employee in the firm and the highest paid.
The Bank of Ireland chief executive got into a testy exchange with a Labour TD over his pay packet today.
Sinn Féin finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty says Kevin Murphy’s total remuneration package of €586,000 breached the government’s own pay cap.
A number of university heads have reportedly ignored requests to reduce their pay below €200,000.
However, one senior employee at the State agency refused to accept the reduction.
The Minister for Transport said that exceptions can be made to the €92,000 pay cap on ministerial advisers.
Sinn Féin representative Paul Donnelly called the figure “an absolute disgrace”.
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.
Six of the government staff are paid more than €92,000 a year – the rate at which wages were officially capped in July.
Three top academics at Irish universities are each earning more than a quarter of a million euro a year.
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.
Matthew Elderfield says the pay cap is making it tough to get the best talent. Should we consider lifting it?
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