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By Ken Foxe
Brendan Howlin, the Minister responsible for overseeing a pay cap for special advisers, tried repeatedly to come to a compromise agreement on the pay of Ciaran Conlon.
The negotiations over the bumper salary of €127,000 that was finally set out for Mr Conlon show that Brendan Howlin had serious concerns about it and did not believe it could be justified under any circumstances.
He also said it would set a poor example and would provoke other Ministers into seeking higher pay for their advisers, or ask for salaries – that were already agreed – to be renegotiated.
full article at source:
http://thestory.ie/2011/12/20/howlins-compromise-on-pay-rejected-by-the-taoiseach/
Comment:
On the bases of this information there should now be a full independent investigation into what if any undue influence or conflict of interest this bizarre action by Mr Kenny has .This whole business stinks to high heaven and smacks of payback big time! This must be challenged; Kenny must answer to the people why this man can command this king of salary when the vast majority of the people are scraping by just to put food on the table! How long more are the people of Ireland going to allow this kind of blatant cronyism continue????
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Howlin, like other Labour Party ministers is afraid, and/or in awe, of the rich insider-elite including all professional advisors. Worse still, he, like the rest of the Labour Party ministers are like frightened rabbits (or is it Rabbets?) in the glare of the Blue-shirt headlights. Why is God’s name did we vote for either of them? Oh yes, I remember, so they could undo all the damage done by the FF…ers; except that they now seem to be better at austerity on the poor and even more afraid of the rich that their FF counterparts. Maybe it is a good thing that we lost our sovereignty if this is the best we can put forward from our own ranks? God help us. With 300,000 public servants and the bloated salaries of senior public ‘servants’ why the hell does the government need ‘advice’. It seems not only are the government too ignorant / stupid to run the country but so too are top level civil servants!