You're exposing your own bias here. The board does not consist 'mainly' of the heads of various unions. On the offchance that you're interested in the facts of who is on the board, see http://www.fas.ie/en/About+Us/Corporate+Structure/FAS+Management/Board+Members.htmWhat I found most interesting about the whole debacial was learning that the board of FAS consists mainly of the heads of the various unions. It is as if they have their own little club at tax payers expense.
You're exposing your own bias here. The board does not consist 'mainly' of the heads of various unions. On the offchance that you're interested in the facts of who is on the board, see http://www.fas.ie/en/About+Us/Corporate+Structure/FAS+Management/Board+Members.htm
Peter McLoone, General Secretary, IMPACT
Des Geraghty – Former senior official in SIPTU
Sally Anne Kinahan – Assistant General Secretary, ICTU
Alice Prendergast – former President, TUI
Owen Wills – General Secretary, TEEU
Is IBEC not the employers Union?
That's the point I was making.Can't belive that guy loe vadrick from FG is on vincent browne now calling for mary harneys resignation.
WHat rubbish !!
Surely mary harney was over there at the time representing FAs and acting as a face to the country.
Spending tax payers money on non-extravagant grooming is more than acceptable in my book in that scenario.
You're exposing your own bias here again. The board does not consist 'mainly' of the heads of various unions. On the offchance that you're interested in the facts of who is on the board,
Can't belive that guy loe vadrick from FG is on vincent browne now calling for mary harneys resignation.
WHat rubbish !!
Surely mary harney was over there at the time representing FAs and acting as a face to the country.
Spending tax payers money on non-extravagant grooming is more than acceptable in my book in that scenario.
I kind of do agree but is the point not that she earns a basic salary of over €200,000 per annum. Can she not pay for her own wash and blowdry? I work with plenty of women who represent my company in much more important meetings than some FAS science mission and none of them have ever charged their personal grooming to the company. For me its the principle of the thing. Do these guys use their own money for anything?
And Molloy to get ½ a MILLION pay off for been arrogant and out of touch!!!
If I resigned from my job in the morning, I can't see my employer saying, "sorry to see you go, here's 2 years salary"
This stuff is not normal. I'm astonished by some of what's been cited as expenses (pay-per-view films?! - I've no problem with people watching whatever they want, but they certainly shouldn't get to claim for it).If FAS are just following general public service travel and expense guidelines then this has much wider implications.
I don't think a full review is actually necessary - but any state agencies which are not already operating to the standard government departments demand should immediately adopt standards no less rigorous than that. A Department of Finance circular, maybe...I do hope that this whole mess leads to a complete overview of the whole area of expenses in the civil service and State Agencies.
Depends. Flights are just about always booked by a section in the Department which has responsibility for travel. I can't imagine you could swap without being detected - and flights must be booked as economy anyway if the journey is under 4 hours. I think Departmental policies may vary a bit over that threshold.I once worked for a large multi-national company and when we had to travel for business, all our flights and hotels were booked through a central office based in London. There was no way I could swap my business class seat for two economy tickets for myself and my girlfriend or stay in unapproved hotel! Does such a system operate in the civil service or is it each to own with regard to travel arrangements
I agree.[...] but first class is just taking the pi**.
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