The idea of Pat Kenny being involved in a similar situation makes me laugh really... I don't think they should get away with it but there are other news stories like the earthquake in Pakistan for instance.....
Hypocrisy - I know of someone who works in a ministers office. This Minister has been on the TV a lot recently explaining about how we need to get real and the cuts are necessary. The same guy had a secretary book Chapter 1 for lunch last week, his daughter arrived and they got the ministerial car over to Chapter 1 had lunch and then he threw the docket to a secretary to be expensed as a "business lunch". €200 well spent when the country is on it's knees - I've just heard him say "we cannot afford to row back on these decisions, we are borrowing €9 million per day at present". Sickening...........
Roy
Also Privilage Days (which I've just heard of this morning from another thread).
"Privilege days" are basically additional annual leave - they're quite anachronistic, because civil service lore has it that they were there to allow civil servants from "down the country" to travel back from their Christmas and Easter holidays. Alternative versions have it that it was to save on the cost of having the boilers on sometime back in the thirties.
There are two per year.
Those who want to hinge about them no doubt will - but I'm guessing at least some of those who do so will, like my private-sector employed OH, have offices which shut down completely between Christmas and New Year without denting their leave entitlements.
But yes, uncertified sick leave being taken as though it's some sort of additional annual leave disgusts me. In over ten years, I've used three uncertified sick days (and yes, I was sick on each occasion); I've had colleagues - very few, but two spring to mind - who very carefully used their "sick days" to augment annual leave. I think the extent of such abuse is probably substantially overstated, though it's unacceptable where it does happen. And a potential disciplinary offence, too.
My company shuts down over Christmas and we have to take an agreed number of days from our annual leave to cover this.
i've never worked for or heard of a company in the private sector which shuts down over the Christmas holidays and does not deduct this from its staff's annual leave.
My company shuts down over Christmas and we have to take an agreed number of days from our annual leave to cover this.
Hypocrisy - I know of someone who works in a ministers office. This Minister has been on the TV a lot recently explaining about how we need to get real and the cuts are necessary. The same guy had a secretary book Chapter 1 for lunch last week, his daughter arrived and they got the ministerial car over to Chapter 1 had lunch and then he threw the docket to a secretary to be expensed as a "business lunch". €200 well spent when the country is on it's knees - I've just heard him say "we cannot afford to row back on these decisions, we are borrowing €9 million per day at present". Sickening...........
I certainly had many, many more free lunches in my time in the private sector than I've had in the public sector. Never quite made it to Chapter One, but I had a few nice ones in my time.I don't think anyone is too surprised. Sure is it not taxpayers money hard at work! Sure, we'll have Complainer telling us that the same goes on in the Private Sector.
Well minister that is my money, I paid it over in my taxes. Your quick lunch is a weeks pension for someone better deserving than your offspring.
I do quite a bit of work with Enterprise Ireland and you would be amazed by the stories I have heard about ministers, opposition TD's and senior civil servants looking for invites to countries all over the world for what was nothing more than a free lunch.I certainly had many, many more free lunches in my time in the private sector than I've had in the public sector. Never quite made it to Chapter One, but I had a few nice ones in my time.
But of course, the actions attributed to the Minister above are totally reprehensible. OneKeano should be sending details of this to the newspapers, and the C&AG, and the head of finance of the relevant government dept.
I certainly had many, many more free lunches in my time in the private sector than I've had in the public sector. Never quite made it to Chapter One, but I had a few nice ones in my time.
Hypocrisy - I know of someone who works in a ministers office. This Minister has been on the TV a lot recently explaining about how we need to get real and the cuts are necessary. The same guy had a secretary book Chapter 1 for lunch last week, his daughter arrived and they got the ministerial car over to Chapter 1 had lunch and then he threw the docket to a secretary to be expensed as a "business lunch". €200 well spent when the country is on it's knees - I've just heard him say "we cannot afford to row back on these decisions, we are borrowing €9 million per day at present". Sickening...........
Roy
The poor puppy!
Yes, but by your own admission you worked for a what I assume to be a large multinational, selling over priced lotions and potions to women and top politicians. This is not the average Irish home grown Private Sector with less than 10 employees.
I do quite a bit of work with Enterprise Ireland and you would be amazed by the stories I have heard about ministers, opposition TD's and senior civil servants looking for invites to countries all over the world for what was nothing more than a free lunch.