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Look at it this way, if the government was so keen, why did they opt for 15 junior ministers?? and 15 actual ministers, plus a super minister!! What does a junior minister do, apart from laughing all the way to the bank. The simple fact is they are all at it.
The only way to lead is from the top so if the tops acts the pric big time it cascades down the line. Look at the banks, paying golf membership for pensioners!!
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And again we are the laughing stock of the world...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/ireland-business-blog-with-lisa-ocarroll/2011/mar/22/ireland
Now that the Labour comrades hold the balance of power - at least we would hope to see some parity of esteem with the private sector workers and public sector workers handing back these extra days holliers in the national interest.
Mind your head now for those pigs flying overhead, as our little country slides further into the mire...
And again we are the laughing stock of the world...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/ireland-business-blog-with-lisa-ocarroll/2011/mar/22/ireland
Now that the Labour comrades hold the balance of power - at least we would hope to see some parity of esteem with the private sector workers and public sector workers handing back these extra days holliers in the national interest.
Mind your head now for those pigs flying overhead, as our little country slides further into the mire...
I'm sorry. We've screwed up our economy in the most appalling way, we have just received the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal, we have former Government Ministers being exposed for this, that and the other every second week. And you think Civil Servant's holidays are making us the laughing stock of the world?????
Are you being pedantic or defending the practice?The Banks do not pay golf memberships for pensioners .
On production of a receipt they will make a maximum contribution of 329 euros towards club fees , such contribution is then taxed at the highest tax rate which applies to each individual pensioner.
This applies to the vast majority of pensioners although retired execs get more by way of reimbursement.
Are you being pedantic or defending the practice?
Some Banks make a contribution to golf membership of pensioners.
I don't see how this is defensible when those banks are effectively bankrupt and laying off, literally, thousands of their current staff.
It's a stupid article - her comment beneath in which she presumes that the civil servants who worked hugely long hours at the time of the IMF deal were allowed time off in lieu shows how little research she did.
Stupid lazy article. The reason it was such a news item was that it was an example of the difficulties the Croke Park Agreement faced when bringing in reforms. Not a mention of that though.
Very few journalists commenting on Ireland's fiscal collapse have their facts right. Thus there is an amount of ignorance out there about the entire situation. Facts have been bypassed in favour of sentiment. Hard to get the facts about anything in the papers these days, though some are more knowledgeable than others.She should get her facts right
The Banks do not pay golf memberships for pensioners .
On production of a receipt they will make a maximum contribution of 329 euros towards club fees , such contribution is then taxed at the highest tax rate which applies to each individual pensioner.
This applies to the vast majority of pensioners although retired execs get more by way of reimbursement.
Nope , simply pointing out that the major Banks do not pay the golf membership for pensioners as claimed by a previous poster- they simply make a taxable contribution to same - big difference .
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You've no idea how much it cheers me up to learn that our bankrupt banks who I'm paying for in taxes are using the money given to them by taxpayers to help ex employees play golf. It makes not a blind bit of difference whether the money is in cash or a taxable contribution. It is absolutely obscene.
Seriously, you think that's why we're the laughing stock of the world? I don't think so. Also, that is not what privilege days have been for in many many years. They are two leave days that you had to take at Easter and Christmas because the buildings closed down. If we were to follow your logic, people who don't believe in God and saints shouldn't be celebrating St Patrick's day and calling it a bank holiday.
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