Poor junior ministers on €130,000 a year cant afford hotels.

mgn · 03-12-2018 08:34PM #1

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/we-want-state-to-pay-our-hotel-bills-say-fine-gael-junior-ministers-on-130000-37587696.html

These overpaid clowns are starting to get on my nerves complaining they cant afford hotels in Dublin midweek,and getting €130,000 a year.They will be soon off on holidays again for another few weeks.Where in the world pays ministers with a small population like Ireland that sort of money anyway.

Whereisgalway · 03-12-2018 08:37PM

mgn wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/we-want-state-to-pay-our-hotel-bills-say-fine-gael-junior-ministers-on-130000-37587696.html

These overpaid clowns are starting to get on my nerves complaining they cant afford hotels in Dublin midweek,and getting €130,000 a year.They will be soon off on holidays again for another few weeks.Where in the world pays ministers with a small population like Ireland that sort of money anyway.

The teachers are just as bad as them

wirelessdude01 · 03-12-2018 08:38PM

Whereisgalway wrote:

The teachers are just as bad as them

Ohh sweet baby Jesus.

ben.schlomo · 03-12-2018 08:40PM

Whereisgalway wrote: »

mgn wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/we-want-state-to-pay-our-hotel-bills-say-fine-gael-junior-ministers-on-130000-37587696.html

These overpaid clowns are starting to get on my nerves complaining they cant afford hotels in Dublin midweek,and getting €130,000 a year.They will be soon off on holidays again for another few weeks.Where in the world pays ministers with a small population like Ireland that sort of money anyway.

The teachers are just as bad as them

For staying in hotels? How's that work?

Whereisgalway · 03-12-2018 08:42PM

ben.schlomo wrote: »

For staying in hotels? How's that work?

Comparative holidays to hours worked/salary

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-12-2018 08:44PM

Paschal has such a punchable head

Fann Linn · 03-12-2018 08:44PM

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Comparative holidays to hours worked/salary

Better return on the teaching profession imo.
Exhibit A-Shane Ross.

0ph0rce0 · 03-12-2018 08:48PM

They should rent a gaff between them 20 mins out of the city, plenty of 4 bedroom houses out this way in a nice area for about 2000 a month.

If they aren't all there together they could split it 8 ways, and use it as they need it. That's 250 a month between the 8 listed. Even two houses between them if they need 8 rooms is 500 a month. Better than 500 - 1000 a week.

They couldn't give a fiddlers **** though they just want the money.

mgn · 03-12-2018 08:52PM

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

They should rent a gaff between them 20 mins out of the city, plenty of 4 bedroom houses out this way in a nice area for about 2000 a month.

If they aren't all there together they could split it 8 ways, and use it as they need it. That's 250 a month between the 8 listed. Even two houses between them if they need 8 rooms is 500 a month. Better than 500 - 1000 a week.

There not intelligent enough to do something like that.

Jim Bob Scratcher · 03-12-2018 08:54PM

Aww, the poor creatures, God help them

biko · 03-12-2018 08:54PM

Let them stay in B&B

Raging_Ninja · 03-12-2018 08:59PM

Tbh in the private sector business trips would almost always be paid for by the employer. I wouldn't have a problem if they had reasonable expenses reimbursed.

ZeitgeistGlee · 03-12-2018 08:59PM

Ah sure surely they could get together and rent a house off one of their party colleagues. :rolleyes:

mgn · 03-12-2018 09:03PM

Maybe if the stuck Boyd Barrett outside the Dail with a bucket he might collect a few euro for them.He spends more time outside the Dail than inside anyway protesting about something.

McMurphy · 03-12-2018 09:08PM

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

Tbh in the private sector business trips would almost always be paid for by the employer. I wouldn't have a problem if they had reasonable expenses reimbursed.

I would have thought that it would be expensed?

odyssey06 · 03-12-2018 09:09PM

No wonder government spending is out of control. They should all be fired immediately. They're hardly likely to get public finances under control with this atrocious cop on when it comes to their personal funds.

Gatling · 03-12-2018 09:09PM

How do 3000 homeless people afford hotel stays long term if TDs can't afford a single over night

Fann Linn · 03-12-2018 09:10PM

They shoukd ask Micky D. He's well able to find hotel rooms and have others pay for them.

Barlett · 03-12-2018 09:11PM

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Comparative holidays to hours worked/salary

If you think teaching begins at 9 am & finishes at 2.30 / 4 pm you have a hell of a lot to learn about the working world

kneemos · 03-12-2018 09:12PM

TD:s get expenses, don't see why ministers don't.
Granted they get thirty five G extra but twenty odd of that must go in hotel expenses,whereas their Dublin comrades get to keep it.

mgn · 03-12-2018 09:16PM

kneemos wrote: »

TD:s get expenses, don't see why ministers don't.
Granted they get thirty five G extra but twenty odd of that must go in hotel expenses,whereas their Dublin comrades get to keep it.

What hotels are the saying in to spend twenty thousand a year.

awec · 03-12-2018 09:17PM

The article is lacking some details. How many nights a month do they typically spend in Dublin?

In fairness, it is odd that TDs get it covered but ministers don't.

Richard Hillman · 03-12-2018 09:17PM

Maybe they should get an AirBNB?

amcalester · 03-12-2018 09:21PM

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

I would have thought that it would be expensed?

Heard it said on the radio this morning that these bills can’t be expensed, they were saying that TD’s have unvouched expenses but junior ministers don’t.

meeeeh · 03-12-2018 09:23PM

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

Tbh in the private sector business trips would almost always be paid for by the employer. I wouldn't have a problem if they had reasonable expenses reimbursed.

Not if it's your usual place of work. This is not travel, it's not like their place of work is their constituency office in Claire, Cork or wherever else.

What surprised me more is how many junior ministers are knocking around. I'm pretty sure some of them could easily be spared unnecessary expenses by their ministry being cut.

Unvouched expenses should also be gone. Where else can you pay someone 30k per year untaxed without Revenue sniffing around.

odyssey06 · 03-12-2018 09:25PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Maybe they should get an AirBNB?

I think some sort of homeless junior minister Hub in a rejigged bedsit seems more their level?

mgn · 03-12-2018 09:28PM

meeeeh wrote: »

Not if it's your usual place of work. This is not travel, it's not like their place of work is their constituency office in Claire, Cork or wherever else.

What surprised me more is how many junior ministers are knocking around. I'm pretty sure some of them could easily be spared unnecessary expenses by their ministry being cut.

Unvouched expenses should also be gone. Where else can you pay someone 30k per year untaxed without Revenue sniffing around.

Its one law for them and another for their subjects.