A day after Enda points his cowardly finger, we get this............

Freddie59 · 28-01-2012 06:02PM

ilovesleep wrote: »

How can they justify a payout like this when the country is spending too much. This is coming out from the public purse and a 800,000 euro package and a pension of 200,000 a year at the age of 60 is far too much for anybody when the state is broke.

Ergo the reason we are borrowing 400m a week. What a great little gravy train this country is for a select few. While the rest foot the bill.

Zebra3 · 28-01-2012 10:59PM

The Waltzing Consumer wrote: »

Might as well add another thing that Enda should get the blame for, based on the logic of the posters for the last couple of days.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0127/adobe.html

"US technology giant Adobe is to base the European side of its new cloud-based service in Ireland.
Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch told RTÉ News that its new Creative Cloud service would be hosted in Dublin when it launches later this year.
Mr Lynch made the comments following a 30-minute meeting with Taoiseach Enda Kenny on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos."

Oh, sorry, is this thread and the many Enda Kenny threads in the last couple of days only for hysterical daily mail standard of debate and begrudging?

People really do need to get a grip on themselves. They wont show 1% of the emotion they showed for his pretty accurate comments about borrowing money earlier in the wekk, for some actual good news about investment...but hey, let the childish overreactions continue!

:rolleyes:

People are right to point the finger of blame at Kenny.

If he wants, he can tax the f*ck out of gross pensions like this.

But he won't.

Because he can't wait for his own. :mad:

Meanwhile others struggle to feed and clothe their kids. :rolleyes:

efb · 28-01-2012 11:36PM

Im glad the keyboard warriors are thinking it was easy to run the esb - the investments and expansions were very successful.

sgb · 29-01-2012 12:26AM

The ESB is a semi state company and is highly valued state asset

The CE has done a good job

Good luck to him, hope he has a long and happy retirement

Duiske · 29-01-2012 01:37AM

sgb wrote: »

Good luck to him, hope he has a long and happy retirement

Oh, he'll be happy. Sure only a few months ago the Government cut the electricty units allowed to invalids by 25%, yet this guys is now entitled to 55% off his bi-monthly bill, up to a limit of 1,000 units. When the cold snap hits next weekend, i'll be comforted in the knowledge that he won't have to make a choice between heat or food.

sgb · 29-01-2012 02:56AM

Duiske wrote: »

Oh, he'll be happy. Sure only a few months ago the Government cut the electricty units allowed to invalids by 25%, yet this guys is now entitled to 55% off his bi-monthly bill, up to a limit of 1,000 units. When the cold snap hits next weekend, i'll be comforted in the knowledge that he won't have to make a choice between heat or food.

The last thing he is going to worry about his ESB bill whether he has a reduced bill or not

Mammanabammana · 29-01-2012 03:17AM

Every government we've had for the last 20 years, and probably longer, has been a shower of self serving ****. They made my country unfit for me to live in, which is why I'm posting this from Australia, and for that reason I hope they all fucking die slowly and painfully.

Mammanabammana · 29-01-2012 03:26AM

If he's looking for accountability, he should probably start looking a bit closer to home.

Duiske · 29-01-2012 03:30AM

sgb wrote: »

The last thing he is going to worry about his ESB bill whether he has a reduced bill or not

And thats my point. Given the size of his pension why should he get 55% off his electric bill, when this Government, who pledged to protect the most vunerable in society, see fit to cut the free allowance to the disabled by 25%.

starbelgrade · 29-01-2012 03:31AM

sgb wrote: »

The ESB is a semi state company and is highly valued state asset

The CE has done a good job

Good luck to him, hope he has a long and happy retirement

You'd want to be fairly thick if you couldn't run a government backed monopoly for 25 years on the supply of an essential commodity and not actually make a profit.

micropig · 29-01-2012 03:41AM

please tell me this is an old thread circa 2007:mad:

LH Pathe · 29-01-2012 04:01AM

"if I had to suck the cock of every man in this yard, to get out of here I'd do it..."

Mammanabammana · 31-01-2012 03:16AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

You'd want to be fairly thick if you couldn't run a government backed monopoly for 25 years on the supply of an essential commodity and not actually make a profit.

Not to mention raping the average Irish person up the arse for every penny you need to continue to live on the gravy train. As long as they let you.

holystungun9 · 31-01-2012 08:46AM

LH Pathe wrote: »

"if I had to suck the cock of every man in this yard, to get out of here I'd do it..."

LH Pathe · 31-01-2012 08:58AM

holystungun9 wrote: »

it was on the telly at the time. I was in this thread at the time..

Son Of A Vidic · 31-01-2012 11:13AM

juan.kerr wrote: »

Well we did elect them

Cop on now and lose this 'We' business bullshít.

smash · 31-01-2012 11:17AM

The pension etc may be high, but at least he's going and the next person wont get those benefits. Now if we could just do the same with the top level PS.

Father Damo · 31-01-2012 11:24AM

Who gives a sh1t.

He had a job, presumably did it with dinstinction and like most well paying jobs is retiring with a decent salary. Because the country is up the swanny he should be booted out on 200 a week?

Out of curiousity Im sure some of the moaners here have a civbil employed parent. Should they get their retirement slashed?

He is getting a massive pay out but cest la vie, Im sure it was in a contract signed in the boom years. Just because vast swathes of the Irish public fcuked up their own country borrowing like idiots this guy should take a cut in his pension?

MidlandsM · 31-01-2012 11:28AM

Mr E wrote: »

It was probably in his contract. He has been in that position since 2002.
The next guy won't get the same package.

a FF contract......:mad:

sbsquarepants · 31-01-2012 11:40AM

Father Damo wrote: »

Who gives a sh1t.

He had a job, presumably did it with dinstinction and like most well paying jobs is retiring with a decent salary. Because the country is up the swanny he should be booted out on 200 a week?

Out of curiousity Im sure some of the moaners here have a civbil employed parent. Should they get their retirement slashed?

He is getting a massive pay out but cest la vie, Im sure it was in a contract signed in the boom years. Just because vast swathes of the Irish public fcuked up their own country borrowing like idiots this guy should take a cut in his pension?

Ah, enda - you're at it again.
People can only borrow like idiots, when banks lend like idiots. Now, enda damo which end of that spectrum had a highly paid army of regulators, paid from tax payers money to ensure they followed sensible rules, and which end were just trying to put roofs over their heads?
Which end do you think should have been better informed and better behaved than the other?
Which end do you think should carry the bulk of the blame?
Also, enda damo it wasn't really people buying houses that fúcked us up now was it, it was anglo, the bank you enda promised to stop pumping our money into before the election.
Remember before the election? You were enda was very different then!

listermint · 31-01-2012 11:53AM

Father Damo wrote: »

Who gives a sh1t.

He had a job, presumably did it with dinstinction and like most well paying jobs is retiring with a decent salary. Because the country is up the swanny he should be booted out on 200 a week?

Out of curiousity Im sure some of the moaners here have a civbil employed parent. Should they get their retirement slashed?

He is getting a massive pay out but cest la vie, Im sure it was in a contract signed in the boom years. Just because vast swathes of the Irish public fcuked up their own country borrowing like idiots this guy should take a cut in his pension?

I would say yes, if the pension investment has gone down the swany just like everyone elses. If the pension investment is not then no.

As an aside, it doesnt take much to run a company that has had a monopoly of its market for decades and charges what it likes for electricity. Up until recently there were no other players in the market. So i would doubt his day to day was very stressful..

Paparazzo · 31-01-2012 12:01PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

You'd want to be fairly thick if you couldn't run a government backed monopoly for 25 years on the supply of an essential commodity and not actually make a profit.

Considering they had to renew almost all their mv network in that time because they were never given the money to do it before, at the same time electricity demand in ireland in 2005 was about double what it was in 1995 which meant essentially the network was not only rebuilt, but almost doubled in size at the same time and kept supply up all during the celtic tiger years.
All during a time when you have to give the government it's cut of profits, an the regulator is restricting you, and competition is coming in cherrypicking high energy industry users from you and now domestic users, the company breaking up, dealing with unions, keeping the green party happy (remember them

), dealing with Joe Duffy and public v private arguments in every newspapers almost every day. It's not that easy, and it's might be semi state, but it's definitely not government backed, and it's certainly not a monopoly. If it was, we'd have cheaper electricity

A day after Enda points his cowardly finger, we get this............

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