‘We’ve Cut Everything To The Bone’

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Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tanaiste Joan Burton. The Taoiseach launching the Low Pay Commission at St Andrew’s Resource Centre in Dublin 2 this morning. The commission is to recommend an appropriate national minimum wage to Government

When he [Enda Kenny]  was asked: “Are you actually worth three-and-a-half grand a week?” the Taoiseach responded: “Very much so.”

He added: “Salaries are down by 40% in the case of the Taoisigh – we’ve cut everything to the bone.”

Forty per cent down?

But €214,187 to €185,350 is a 13.46% decrease

Anyone?

Taoiseach: Am I worth €3,500 a week? Very much so! (Irish Examiner)

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65 thoughts on “‘We’ve Cut Everything To The Bone’

    1. Denis Murphy

      Cut everything for the poor section of the community but not your disgraceful wages, You have some neck telling the people of Ireland that you are worth 3.500 e per week?? You are a spineless cowardly man who haven’t the guts to come out & face the people, Remember you are the peoples servant & its tax payers money that’s paying you that all that money.

    1. smoothlikemurphys

      That’s true – thousands of Gallons of Irish Water is being wasted every day because of an inefficient and outdated system

      1. Paolo

        and a bunch of irresponsible wasters are making the job of installing meters far more expensive than it should be. Pay for what you use people and don’t make others pay for you.

      1. Nessy

        Here here! It’s a disgrace that ordinary citizens have to retire at 66 (soon to be later) and they’re off retired with a bulk pension at the age of 50. Makes my blood boil!

      2. Limey Tank

        They should have the same pension as other public servants, contributory, paid out of their wages. To simplify, years service x 1/80 of salary.

    1. Bluebeard

      What idiot would take the job for 50k? Certainly not one that would be able for it. Plenty of angry sh*tetalk on here today I see.

      1. Denis Murphy

        Well they are all on huge wages plus huge expenses & none of them are worth it. Bunch of wasters, Do they really think people are going to vote for them in the next election???. They have dug their own grave as far as i’m concerned

  1. Clampers Outside!

    Ireland has the second highest, in the western world, proportion of its WORKING population living on ‘subsistence wages’.

    That’s people who are on the edge of becoming officially not able to afford to live on the wages they earn, according to the OECD.

    How high?
    21% of the working population in Ireland live on this edge, second only to that behemoth of slave wage promotion, USA.

    I put this to Dermot Lacey and Pat Dunne a few months ago during an email exchange (they seem to answer most of Joan’s emails, at least the ones I’ve sent in) and they went quiet after that, no response. Up to that point they were responding with all sorts of nonsense about how great they were defending low earners. Spoofers both of ’em.

        1. Zarathustra

          Not necessarily Mr/Ms Underwear, a dash is used to connect, or separate, phrases or sentences, and that’s how Mr Lion wrote it.

          1. Zarathustra

            Paolo, it’s not about what is appropriate, it’s about what is correct; and yes, a semicolon could also have been used, but Mr Lion used a dash, which is also correct.

          2. ABM's Bloodied Underwear

            Dash or semicolon, one thing we can be sure of – it’s been a great day for grammar.

        2. Joe the Lion

          I’m sure someone who goes under the name of Mr Bloodied Underwear has a lot to bring to the table.

    1. cormacjones

      None of those have anything to do with the salary you’re paid. Enda says his salary is down 40%

  2. martco

    oh yeah well worth the salary…imagine what it would be like without him, sure the place would fall apar……oh hang on now a minute (snigger)

    either of these dumbasses would barely make middle-manager grade in any of the tier 1 companies I’ve worked for

    1. Bingo

      Reminds me of John Delaney when he claimed that he’d be better remunerated if he worked in private sector…
      Wonder how well Enda would do?
      Probably best to stay in public sector, maybe he’d make it to principal….

  3. mrmurphster

    moot point but 40% is kinda correct if taken with regard to the wage Bertie was on. 314k as per a quick online search

  4. Steve

    Blah blah blah government is crap.
    Does broadsheet ever have anything positive to say about FG/labour??? I know this site is anti- gov but could show a little balance from time to time. I’m sure if you picked apart everything Paul murphy said you would find a wealth of posts to take this piss
    Out of / caption competitions etc.

    I think the new children and relationships bill is pretty progressive and well thought out. And left leaning. if Paul murphy introduced it then broadsheet would be creaming themselves over how great it is. But hasn’t been a word about it on here, sure we can’t be giving the government credit for Doing something progressive, even if they have messed up water charges etc.

    Much rather post random pics of lads holding tricolours in dublin 7/8/12/24.

    Fight!!!

    1. guy bague

      You are obviously a Labour Loser. Sorry, Luvvie. Shouldnt you be at barricade training for the weekend?
      #shutitdown

    2. ABM's Bloodied Underwear

      Broadsheet have reposted a news article and queried the figures. How is that anti-government?
      Not spinning news stories until they’re dizzy doesn’t make them anti-government. They give credit where credit is due. Usually concerning mental health.
      If, as you say, “the new children and relationships bill is pretty progressive and well thought out”, then why don’t you outline it in detail and send it into broadsheet? They may just publish it.

      1. Steve

        “Give credit where credit is due”.

        Lol.

        Actually i apologise, broadsheet did post something on the bill last week, but was more geared to take the piss out of people outside Leinster house.

        1. ABM's Bloodied Underwear

          So you complain that certain things aren’t getting the attention they deserve. It is suggested that you highlight these things that deserve attention and bring it to broadsheet’s attention. You promptly ignore the suggestion and go back to moaning about the same thing.

          Carry on.

    3. JimmytheHead

      Showing balance? Ok lets have an article about how poor people are bad and how banks need more money to “help the economy”…. Nah, lets keep that kind of sh*te where it belongs – splattered all over RTE News / The Indo / Times

    4. Clampers Outside!

      When this govt goes out, then the next one will get the same treatment…. on their fupp ups!

      The last thing you do is praise a govt. because there is always work to be done. Anyway, don’t the different parties each have their own Ard Fheis for back slapping. Don’t expect that from voters. The days of fawning over inept politicians that get one good thing right now and again are well and truly over.

      If we’re gonna pay them so well, they damn well better work hard for it, and expecting a thanks at the end is not really part of that.

      1. Steve

        Yeah i know Clampers, I agree with .
        The 4th estate is there to police the government and rightly so. Although I criticise broadsheet I would include them in that 4th estate.

        I suppose you get no credit for doing anything in politics…so why bother :)

  5. Bluebeard

    And whatever we do lets not pretend for a moment that we are actually some of the luckiest people on the planet on nearly every metric. Nah. That would mean we would actually have to admit liking the country. Much better to act like anonymous spoilt brats and whine all day long.

    1. Adama

      Can you name maybe 8 reasons why we’re lucky? Because if a country gets the Government it deserves, we’re rightly fupped.

      1. Bluebeard

        Cops don’t have guns. No conscription. Education for all. No famine. Democracy. Equal rights. Neutral. Social welfare system. Religious tolerance. English speaking. And there are so many more. Which is why we regularly top so many global matrices on best places to live.
        Let the self loathing scoffing commence.

        1. Adama

          Some good points there BB. I’m not going to retort with a counter-list of problems Irish society faces, that’d be just too easy. The optics of Enda and Joan sneering about what good value they are just gets on me t*its. Especially since a minute amount of their take-home was removed by Revenue before I got a chance to see it.

          1. Bluebeard

            The problems are aired to death Adama. Especially by the moaners on here. Sometimes its good to put things in perspective.

        2. scottser

          cops have no guns but are still happy to fit you up on arbitrary powers. no conscription, but we have job bridge for that. no famine, but we’d be equally vulnerable if supermarkets didn’t trade. it’s plutocracy, not a democracy. some of us have equal rights. social welfare system not really fit for purpose. religious tolerance with the strictest blasphemy laws in europe. english speakers whose native language is dead on its feet.

          yay! go us!

          1. Bluebeard

            Lol. What a horrible mind you inhabit. You and your kind are one of our biggest drawbacks.The whingy, self loathing tools. Hate yourself if you must, I shall continue to be grateful for the country I live in, and to improve it where I can.

      1. Bluebeard

        Im always about the improvement Starina. But i do it out of love for the country, not out of hate :-)

  6. Soundings

    Still gets paid as much as Cameron and Hollande who run proper countries with 15x population, 15xeconomy, nukes, air forces and unneutral armies.

      1. Soundings

        Emigrate? What, like 500,000 in the past eight years? If a country can’t protect its population and force them to leave, then it’s hardly a proper country, now, is it?

  7. Frilly Keane

    Cut to the bone my hole

    Both of them can surrender their salaries for a year and still live comfortably.

    Even more so they can forgo their Ministerial Pensions permanently.
    And they’d still be better off than most of the other people their age.

  8. Drogg

    Seriously Enda is ridiculous. I was driving round the country All day yesterday and had to listen to all the usual muppets on the radio like George hook and Shane Coleman taking about what a good job FG and Labour have done cutting unemployment and running the country. But the reason people like that like these muppets is because they don’t have to face the truths of over 90,000 a year emigrating since they got into power, cuts to all the medical services, cuts to services for mental health and the disabled. People having to work 40 hour weeks for €50 on top of their dole. But they do get to face the nice tax cuts for those at the top. The thing that’s annoying me the most at the moment is Enda Kenny refuses to talk to the Irish people or perform in debates with other political leaders of this country but he is going over to SXSW to give a talk about how Ireland is great but if it was me and I work in a tech industry I would in no way invest in Ireland cause one look at Enda kennys plastic head and his fake speal while gesturing his hands trying to replicate Obama, I would know not to invest here.

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