Seanad debates

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Ministerial Pensions: Motion

 

2:30 pm

Photo of John Gerard HanafinJohn Gerard Hanafin (Fianna Fail)

One does not hear those who served for a very short term in the 1994 to 1997 Government, who are now retired and who qualified after two years for a pension speak about handing back their pensions. The Opposition is chasing the rainbow of public opinion. Were it not for the pension arrangements of Bank of Ireland's chief executive officer, Mr. Boucher, or the Irish European Commissioner's, the motion would never have been put before the House. If it is wrong today, it was wrong two years ago or five years ago, but we have not heard a word about it. The Opposition is trying to ensure the opinion polls stay flat-lined, which is its hope, but the Government's job is to get on with what it must do.

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