big of him
Look at many previous posts on AAM. We called for a lesser Civil Service. We called for less people to be working in our hospitals. We screamed for a slimmed down public service. We wanted less teachers. Remember the shrined advice "Be careful what you wish for . . ."
Our wishes are now being realised. So we are getting what we wished for.
i know that teachers are only receiving basic entry rate for the additional time spent working after "retirement".
Marion
No, we are getting an Irish solution to an Irish problem by allowing senior people to retire in one go on very generous pensions which means that the overall pay and pension bill is not reduced by a significant amount.
Exodus of senior & experienced Gardai being discussed on Liveline now
I agree with all of that.No, we are getting an Irish solution to an Irish problem by allowing senior people to retire in one go on very generous pensions which means that the overall pay and pension bill is not reduced by a significant amount. When people called for a smaller public service, they didn't mean simply transfer a large portion of the cost from direct payroll to pensions and issue press releases saying there are now 7500 less people in the public sector even though we are still paying them.
By the way, I don't begrudge anyone taking early retirement. My mother took it as a nurse. Within one week, the hospital rang and wanted her back as agency staff but she refused. Most of her colleagues went back on Agency rates and are getting full pensions. And young nurses still can't get work. That's not reform. That's just incompetent management.
I also agree with that.This all comes back to another irish solution to and irish problem - The pension levy.
If the government had have cut PS pensions in line with PS pay, the pension bill would have been reduced by 14% also and anyone retiring on a PS pension the past two years would have had it reduced. It was a political decision to introduce the pension levy rather than a pay cut.
What's wrong with that?As you said, the first 12K of pension were exempt. This was done to prevent the anomoly of PS pensioners earning less than the state old pension, so it was a political decision as they hadn't the balls to cut this even though all other SW payments were reduced.
LolThanks for the warning.
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