Yes, it's another thread about TD pay and benefits.
Martin Cullen will receive a severance payment of nearly €80,000 (per today's Irish Independent):
PLUS a salary of nearly €200,000 for the remainder of 2010, and nearly 100K for 2011;
PLUS a combined TD and Minister pension of €106,000 FOR LIFE! (per Vincent Brown last night)
Everyone is entitled to a decent pension, but this sort of thing is making fools of us all. MC has only been a TD since 1987.
Then again, when you dedicate yourself to the work of the constituency, with absolutely no thought for your own benefit, you deserve to be recognised as a true patriot. A leader. A role model.
According to some political commentators, the real agenda behind MC's resignation is not ill health, but that it affords MC the opportunity to pursue certain newspapers for damages for alleged libel in relation to the "Monica Leech Matter". This is something that he would be unlikely to do as a sitting TD. ML was awarded nearly 2 million in damages (still under appeal by the newspapers), and MC reckons he is entitled to some of that action too. Watch this space.
Martin Cullen will receive a severance payment of nearly €80,000 (per today's Irish Independent):
PLUS a salary of nearly €200,000 for the remainder of 2010, and nearly 100K for 2011;
PLUS a combined TD and Minister pension of €106,000 FOR LIFE! (per Vincent Brown last night)
Everyone is entitled to a decent pension, but this sort of thing is making fools of us all. MC has only been a TD since 1987.
Then again, when you dedicate yourself to the work of the constituency, with absolutely no thought for your own benefit, you deserve to be recognised as a true patriot. A leader. A role model.
According to some political commentators, the real agenda behind MC's resignation is not ill health, but that it affords MC the opportunity to pursue certain newspapers for damages for alleged libel in relation to the "Monica Leech Matter". This is something that he would be unlikely to do as a sitting TD. ML was awarded nearly 2 million in damages (still under appeal by the newspapers), and MC reckons he is entitled to some of that action too. Watch this space.