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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The retiring Secretary General of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Sean Gorman, who is 59 years old, will get an annual pension of â¬126,000 but only after he gets a total pension payout of â¬634,087. Brigid McManus is due to retire from her position of Secretary General in the Department of Education and Skills, a young woman at 53 years old.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: She will receive an annual pension pot of â¬114,000 and she is entitled to a whopping â¬445,656 pay-off on her retirement. To her credit, she has indicated that she will wave her special severance payment but let us be honest-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----she should not be eligible for that payment in the first instance.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The former Secretary General at the Department of the Taoiseach set the trend-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----with a pension pot of â¬713,000, and all of that happened on the Minister's watch.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Fianna Fáil Party may have filled the trough but the Minister is happy for the high rollers to continue feeding from it.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister could rescind special severance gratuity payments and added years but he chose not to-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and hiding behind the Top Level Appointments Committee, TLAC, and the courts does not wash. Former taoisigh receive eye-watering pensions year after year, despite some of them still earning big money in the private sector. I refer to John Bruton, Brian Cowen, Bertie Ahern, Albert Reynolds and Dick Spring. All of them earn pensions of between approximately â¬120,000 up to approximately...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----and that is taking account of the current public service pension reductions.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: A total of 100 retired civil servants-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----are in receipt of annual pensions in excess of â¬100,000. As the Minister is aware, civil servants make up just one tenth of the public sector, yet the Minister's Department tells us it does not know the total number of public servants in receipt of similar pensions. That is a disgrace, and it reflects a laissez-faire attitude on the Minister's part to these bumper pension payouts. In...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Former Supreme Court Judges Ronan Keane and Tom Finlay each get â¬133,443. Another Supreme Court judge, Anthony Hederman, gets a total annual pension of â¬152,806. I could go on, because the list is very lengthy. Turning to the Minister's announcement this evening about a reduction of 20% on public service pensions over â¬100,000, I wish to comment on the examples he has offered to the...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: A â¬150,000 pension will decrease to â¬131,240.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Let me say this clearly, because the Minister is not grasping it.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Those are the figures read by the Minister.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Minister clearly does not understand------
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----that these are not acceptable figures. The Minister comes in here and trumpets this change as if he was carrying out a revolutionary act. In fact, he has done the bare minimum. The truth is that he is not prepared to take on the big earners. He is not serious about taking on these big pension pots. He has conceded himself that pay caps can be introduced. He has conceded that there...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: The challenge for the Minister now is to complete the task. There is no rhyme or reason for paying out the salaries that he proposes to any public servant. There is no moral or rational justification-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: -----for the Minister to continue with these big pension pay-outs. No amount of cosmetic manoeuvring or rhetoric on the Minister's part can disguise that. The Minister asks a reasonable question.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)
Mary Lou McDonald: Thank you. Outside this rarified Chamber, I think people understand-----