Doctor 'outraged' at €25,000 pay rise won't be taking cut

MLH1

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/doctor-outraged-at-836425000-pay-rise-wont-be-taking-cut-1838265.html

Kiera

MLH1 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/doctor-outraged-at-836425000-pay-rise-wont-be-taking-cut-1838265.html

And what's your take on this, OP? AH isnt a news feed link fourm!

/plus you need to past the report for phone users!

//spoon fed!

admiralofthefleet

whats your opinion on this op?


mine - the article says friday july 24th 2009 so its old news

lugha

Methinks OP is up for a bit of FG bashing :rolleyes:.

connundrum

A HOSPITAL consultant yesterday branded a €25,000 increase in his €225,000 salary as "an outrage".

But he said he will not offer to take a pay cut, because that is "missing the point".

Dr John Barton, a consultant physician at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe, Co Galway, said he had been bothered since he was notified of the salary hike under the new consultants' contract scheme.

The implementation of the contracts scheme is estimated to be costing the State €140m and yesterday Dr Barton said he felt very uneasy about such expenditure at a time of swingeing cutbacks.

Dr Barton, who stood for Fine Gael at the last general election -- he lost out on a seat in East Galway by 50 votes -- voiced his concerns in a letter published in a number of daily newspapers earlier this week.

"The Government has already passed this (increase) and yet we are reading about cutbacks at Crumlin Hospital while in my own institution we have a ward and a theatre closed," Dr Barton said. "Surgeons here are itching to do work, but they can't because of the cutbacks."

Dr Barton added: "We're crucifying hospitals and that affects patient services. I'm simply questioning the morality of all of this -- we are already very well paid people".

For the lazys.

And I'm annoyed, but there is so much to be annoyed at that I'm really tired of being so ****ing annoyed the whole time.

red menace

MLH1 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/doctor-outraged-at-836425000-pay-rise-wont-be-taking-cut-1838265.html

That was some world cup eh?

We wont feel the autumn coming in,once we get into august

Tar.Aldarion

'i shouldn't get this stinking money'
/as he puts it in his pocket

biko

TL;DR
Doctor is "outraged" at salary increases while grabbing more bank notes from state coffers.

Athlone_Bhoy

I know him well and actually a very nice man. Although he gets paid way to much IMO.

califorNia

Giving people the Dole for doing nothing = Sweet, man!

Giving a highly qualified/specialised doctor a pay increase = No ****ing way, man!

Never change, boards.ie. Never change.

Dudess

califorNia wrote: »

Giving people the Dole for doing nothing = Sweet, man!

Giving a highly qualified/specialised doctor a pay increase = No ****ing way, man!

Never change, boards.ie. Never change.

Oh no there are actually plenty of people on Boards.ie who agree with the idiotic notion that the dole is just handed out to people to do nothing (it's not a means of income for those who have lost their jobs in this time of high unemployment and are finding it difficult to secure another job).
The doctor himself is outraged at how high the increase is, as he feels he and his ilk are paid well enough and it doesn't make sense when there are so many health cutbacks... although lol at him not taking a pay cut in protest.

Dubba

califorNia wrote: »

Giving people the Dole for doing nothing = Sweet, man!

Giving a highly qualified/specialised doctor a pay increase = No ****ing way, man!

Never change, boards.ie. Never change.

So by your logic only un-highly qualified/ un-specialised people are now on the dole.
What rock have you been living on for the past 2 years?

biko

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

mine - the article says friday july 24th 2009 so its old news

Indeed.