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MARY HANAFIN HAS warned against increasing the pensions of former government ministers, saying that the economy “isn’t ready” yet.
The former Fianna Fáil education minister and now councillor described the pensions as “very generous”.
Speaking to The Marian Finucane Show on RTÉ Radio 1, Hanafin said:
“I think we should be the very last people, the very last, to get any kind of an increase.”
I don’t think the country is right, or the economy is right yet, to be paying us or the very big pensioners extra money.
The Sunday Times reports today that under the recently agreed public sector pay deal, former government ministers are in line to receive a pension increase.
The paper details that the maximum increase is in the region of €1,680. For example, former taoiseach Brian Cowen’s pension will increase from around €134,000 €136,000.
The Department has defended the increases, with a spokesperson telling the paper that the increases are weighted towards civil servants at the other end of the pay scale.
Hanafin said that in her own situation, she doesn’t take an allowance or expenses from the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown council, worth roughly €30,000 together.
Speaking to the same programme, Hanafin also defended the Fianna Fáil government’s actions during the financial crisis.
She said the regulator, the Central Bank, and the politicians were each left to look after their own areas, but she doesn’t think this “hands-off approach” is appropriate now.
Former finance ministers Brian Cowen and Charlie McCreevy both appeared before the banking inquiry last week.
Quoting opinion and colour writers, including TD Shane Ross, Hanafin said the inquiry so far has been aimed at ‘nailing Fianna Fáil to the cross’.
“That just hasn’t happened yet,” she said, noting Ross’s suggestion that it could boomerang and negatively affect the current Government.
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Nothing to do with mass immigration
@Marg FitzGerald: all migrants are offered vaccinations as appropriate from their healthcare provider
@LittleBee:
Even the one that enter illegally?
@➕The Gray➕:
*ones
@Marg FitzGerald: Trust is ultimately what it’s all about.
@➕The Gray➕: yes
http://www.hpsc.ie/guidance
@LittleBee: sorry that link doesn’t work be suse it’s a pdf but if you pop it into Google you can read the entire infectious disease protocol for migrants
@LittleBee:
Even the one that are never caught?
Thanks science denying numpties! Blood on your hands.
@GrahamMManning: Despite agreeing with your sentiment, that kind of phrasing isn’t at all going to help them become more open to vaccination, in fact I’d say it would do the opposite.
@Diarmuid Hunt: agreed but at this point (ur not local nite?) do you really need anyone adopting standards views re this?
@GrahamMManning: are scientific studies the same as medical studies?
Anti vax types are morons.
Refugees , thanks
have your say