morbidly obese cats

digitally-yours

lets add a poll and see how many people are aware of the salaries these fat cats are taking ?

Some Irish v UK Salaries

UK: Prime minister David Cameron - £142,500.
Ireland: Taoiseach Brian Cowen - €228,446 (£193,250.01)
Who's on top? Ireland

UK: NHS chief executive David Nicolson - £255,000
Ireland: HSE chief executive Cathal Magee – salary of €322,000 (£272,390.43)
Who's on top? Ireland

Department of finance
UK: Treasury permanent secretary, Sir Nicholas Macpherson £175,000
Ireland: Department of finance's secretary general, Kevin Cardiff €228,446 (£193,250.01)
Who's on top? Ireland

An Post
UK: Royal Mail managing director Mark Middleton £154,999
Ireland: An Post chief executive Donal Connell €500,000 (£423,097.31)
Who's on top? Ireland

Top 10 earners in the Irish public sector (state and semi-state)

1. Head of ESB: €752,568
2. Head of Dublin Airport Authority: €568,100
3. Head of An Post: €500,000
4. Head of Coillte, the forestry commission €417,000
5. Head of Voluntary Health Insurance: €412,003
6. Head of Bord Gais: €394,000
7. Head of Bord na Mona (turf energy agency): €392,000
8. Head of RTE: (TV): €326,000
9. Head of CIE (transport): €252,416
10. Head of Health Services Executive: €335,913

Guardian Link

scientific1982

For a country of our size, that is just ridiculous.

tommyhaas

Berties answer to this was ''Ah but sure the British PM gets a house (10 Downing Street), and de American President (also paid less then the Taoiseach) gets de whii house''

Fcukin unbelievable

omahaid

Are there no photos of morbidly obese cats? Disappoint

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TSCN1BK9DGI/TBa3tfxb5mI/AAAAAAAAAIY/1gg9zo37Qag/s1600/white-fat-cat.jpg

Heres one

El_Dangeroso

omahaid wrote: »

Are there no photos of morbidly obese cats? Disappoint

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_TSCN1BK9DGI/TBa3tfxb5mI/AAAAAAAAAIY/1gg9zo37Qag/s1600/white-fat-cat.jpg

Heres one

I was expecting similar. Thank you sir for honouring the literal title of the thread.

omahaid

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

I was expecting similar. Thank you sir for honouring the literal title of the thread.

Happy to oblige. In fact, here is a website on the topic of amazingly fat cats

http://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/08/top-15-amazingly-ginormous-fat-cats/

Hazys

digitally-yours wrote: »

4. Head of Coillte, the forestry commission €417,000

Well tbf to the Head of Collite, they are doing very important research in the area of "getting money to grow on trees", its a small price to pay for possible massive returns.

FreudianSlippers

tommyhaas wrote: »

Berties answer to this was ''Ah but sure the British PM gets a house (10 Downing Street), and de American President (also paid less then the Taoiseach) gets de whii house''

Fcukin unbelievable

There is no excuse for that. The Taoiseach has a beautiful house as well, Steward's Lodge, that he can and should live in.

FreudianSlippers

BTW, the Chancellor of Germany only gets paid €220,000pa

FreudianSlippers

digitally-yours wrote: »

lets add a poll and see how many people are aware of the salaries these fat cats are taking ?

Some Irish v UK Salaries

UK: Prime minister David Cameron - £142,500.
Ireland: Taoiseach Brian Cowen - €228,446 (£193,250.01)
Who's on top? Ireland

UK: NHS chief executive David Nicolson - £255,000
Ireland: HSE chief executive Cathal Magee – salary of €322,000 (£272,390.43)
Who's on top? Ireland

Department of finance
UK: Treasury permanent secretary, Sir Nicholas Macpherson £175,000
Ireland: Department of finance's secretary general, Kevin Cardiff €228,446 (£193,250.01)
Who's on top? Ireland

An Post
UK: Royal Mail managing director Mark Middleton £154,999
Ireland: An Post chief executive Donal Connell €500,000 (£423,097.31)
Who's on top? Ireland

Top 10 earners in the Irish public sector (state and semi-state)

1. Head of ESB: €752,568
2. Head of Dublin Airport Authority: €568,100
3. Head of An Post: €500,000
4. Head of Coillte, the forestry commission €417,000
5. Head of Voluntary Health Insurance: €412,003
6. Head of Bord Gais: €394,000
7. Head of Bord na Mona (turf energy agency): €392,000
8. Head of RTE: (TV): €326,000
9. Head of CIE (transport): €252,416
10. Head of Health Services Executive: €335,913

Guardian Link

Well, the first thing that we need to do is immediately cut our equivalent positions to the UK salary minus 15%!

imwatchingyou

do you know how much these fat cats are getting paid ?

cats get paid now??
ffs what's happening to this world

cleremy jarkson

752,568 euro is simply crazy for the head of the ESB.

For example, there is a huge difference in living standard between somebody earning 100,000 a year and earning 200,000. So the head of the ESB would surely still be wiling to do the job if he was 'only' going to be paid 300,000 a year, which, in fairness, in probably a reasonable wage for the head of such a vital semi-state body.

You see the problem is, that when we read that somebody's salary is 300000, 500000, 800000 ...the differences just becomes meaningless, whereas in reality, a 100 grand difference is an enormous sum of money..about 1100 a week extra after tax.

I don't think people working for state bodies or semi-state bodies should be able to earn over 350,000; we have to remember just how enormous a sum that is and that if a possible candidate for a leading role wasn't happy with it, then the role should be just offered to somebody else who is happy with the salary.

I believe the Taoiseach should be entitled to a high wage; he (or eventually she) is in charge of the country and their wage should reflect that. 180,000 seems about right.
Ministers should be entitled to 130,000 or so. Backbenchers, about 80,000.

Bankers can earn whatever their banks profits allow them, as far as I'm concerned. But when their banks fcuk up, they should be out of a job, end of.
The heads of nationalised banks shouldn't be on salaries of over 300000.