Pay Cap
# pay-cap - Tuesday 13 November, 2012
Irish life CEO remuneration breaches government’s pay cap – Doherty
Sinn Féin finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty says Kevin Murphy’s total remuneration package of €586,000 breached the government’s own pay cap.
# pay-cap - Thursday 5 April, 2012
‘Disgraceful’: Students slate top university staff refusal to take pay cut
A number of university heads have reportedly ignored requests to reduce their pay below €200,000.
# pay-cap - Monday 2 April, 2012
NTMA management agree to 15 per cent pay cut
However, one senior employee at the State agency refused to accept the reduction.
# pay-cap - Sunday 29 January, 2012
Leo Varadkar says €135k salary request didn’t break the rules
The Minister for Transport said that exceptions can be made to the €92,000 pay cap on ministerial advisers.
# pay-cap - Saturday 28 January, 2012
Varadkar under fire after requesting €135k salary for adviser
Sinn Féin representative Paul Donnelly called the figure “an absolute disgrace”.
# pay-cap - Monday 16 January, 2012
Special adviser’s €130,000 salary ‘shows utter hypocrisy of cost-cutting’
The reported decision to pay Simon Coveney’s special adviser €38,000 a year above the Government pay cap has been slated by Fianna Fáil’s Seán Fleming.
# pay-cap - Thursday 20 October, 2011
One in five ministerial advisers breaking new salary cap
Six of the government staff are paid more than €92,000 a year – the rate at which wages were officially capped in July.
# pay-cap - Wednesday 21 September, 2011
One hundred university staff still paid more than €200,000 wage cap
Three top academics at Irish universities are each earning more than a quarter of a million euro a year.
# pay-cap - Wednesday 27 July, 2011
Chiefs of Bord Gáis, ESB and An Post still won’t say they will take pay cut
Pat Rabbitte asked the heads of the three semi-States under his remit to accept voluntary pay cap of €250,000 a month ago – they still haven’t given him an answer.
# pay-cap - Tuesday 26 July, 2011
Poll: Should the State abolish the cap on bankers’ pay?
Matthew Elderfield says the pay cap is making it tough to get the best talent. Should we consider lifting it?
# pay-cap - Wednesday 22 June, 2011
Take 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
Government lowers pay ceilings for semi-state chief executives
But the State’s next round of public CEOs will still earn as much as the next President, and more than the Taoiseach.
# pay-cap - Monday 6 December, 2010
The 9 at 9: Monday
Nine things you really need to know by 9am: Lenihan voted Europe’s worst finance minister; semi state bosses to escape pay cuts, and a live stunt on German TV goes horribly wrong.































