Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

The reason this is important is because these same directors and the chairman the Minister mentioned are trying to impose between pay cuts of between 20% and 30% on workers earning a fraction of what they do. They have also forcibly made redundant five harbour police, with whom they are also involved in a dispute because they made a mistake and overpaid them and are now seeking the money back. There is much anger and grievance because the same people making these decisions are overclaiming for expenses and not paying them back.

Will the Minister confirm what precisely is the salary of the CEO of the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company? According to my figures, in 2010 he was paid €168,000 per year in total. There was one recent monthly payment detailing how he received €14,000 per month, which would add up to €168,000. Will the Minister confirm if, in addition, he gets pension contributions amounting to €42,000 and PRSI contributions amounting to €18,000 per year paid? That would put the total cost of the CEO at €228,000 per year. That is pretty awful when workers are being forced from their jobs in the harbour and others are being asked for pay cuts of between 20% and 30%.

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