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Cleaners face deeper wage cut than top civil servants
Jan 4th
CLEANERS in government departments are facing a higher percentage cut in their basic pay than some of the country’s most senior civil servants.
According to Department of Finance figures, the standard salary for cleaners has been cut by 5pc and now ranges from €19,799 at entry level to €22,987.64 after six years of “satisfactory service”.
Yet the civil servants at the third highest grade — assistant secretaries — are being cut by as little as 3pc. There are 150 assistant secretaries, with salaries of up to €146,000 each.
Public sector: 12% cut across the board
Nov 22nd
FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan has indicated that he will use the 11.9 per cent pay cut private sector workers have already taken as a benchmark for public sector pay cuts, the Sunday Independent has learned.
Mr Lenihan is to outline to his ministerial colleagues his intended expenditure cuts in next month’s Budget at a special cabinet meeting today.
With less than three weeks to go until the Budget, Mr Lenihan and Taoiseach Brian Cowen have again insisted that the €4bn reduction in expenditure must be implemented on December 9.
Third-level cuts ‘will hamper our recovery’
Nov 11th
Cuts to third-level education will hamper economic recovery, a college head warned yesterday.
Dublin City University president Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski slammed money-saving measures proposed by An Bord Snip Nua and claimed learning institutions were key to the country’s escape from recession.
The professor said the redundancies, research savings and student support cuts recommended in the McCarthy report would seriously undermine progress made by Irish learning institutions.
Taoiseach warns no sector can be immune to cutbacks
Jul 17th
The wider interests of the country should be the primary consideration and not sectional interests, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said in his first public response to the McCarthy Report from the body known as An Bord Snip Nua.
Speaking to reporters at an Ógra Fianna Fail function in Collins Barracks this morning, Mr Cowen said: “It can’t be just about defending one’s individual patch, it’s about looking at the process in the round and seeing what’s in the interests of the country at this time.”
He said everyone should “critically and carefully read the Report and consider it”, The Report had indicated the scale of the challenges facing the country and he stressed that, “this is a challenge that the country as a whole has to face”.
Opposition parties criticise Bord Snip recommendations
Jul 16th
Opposition parties have given a mixed reaction to the contents of the Bord Snip Nua report, which recommends around €5.3 billion worth of public spending cuts.
Fine Gael’s Richard Bruton broadly welcomed the report, but said it wasn’t perfect.
“The notion that you would seek to charge the most vulnerable people for their medicines is something that will shock people,” Mr Bruton said, in reference to the board’s controversial recommendation to introduce a €5 charge for those previously receiving free prescriptions.
Labour leader Eamon Gilmore said the report was written by people who have no experience of poverty
His view was echoed by Sinn Fein TD Aengus O’Snodaigh, who said the Government and the author of the report, Colm McCarthy, are out of touch with reality.
Update:
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has appealed to the public to avoid “knee-jerk and defensive reactions” after the publication of today’s report by An Bord Snip Nua.
The report, which lays out recommendation for one of the biggest planned cutbacks in the history of the State, urges 17,300 public sector lay-offs and has already drawn threats of a painful strike by public workers.