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Student Grants Protest outside Dáil
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Wednesday October 24, 2007 16:59 by Jim
Up to one hundred students yesterday protested outside the Dáil over inadequate grants and their late payment. The speakers included Ruairi Quinn T.D. who was part of the Labour government that abolished tution fees, Pearse Doherty of Sinn Fein and Independent Senator David Norris. Pearse Doherty spoke of how when he was in college in DIT he shared a room with four other people due to exhorbitant rents and poor student financial support. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Nice protest, see you same time next year then to protest over the same issue? USI has a membership of alledgedly 250,000 members yet never seeks in engage them in any form of sustained grassroots campaign. It's no wonder these one-off protests every year fail to accomplish anything.
Proposed pay rise for Taoiseach announced today
25/10/2007 - 09:16:33
Details of a proposed pay rise for the Taoiseach will be announced today.
The Review Body on Higher Remuneration is also expected to announce pay increases for ministers, judges and senior civil and public servants.
The review body on top-level remuneration has been examining the pay scales of Ministers, senior civil servants, senior Garda and Army officers as well as top staff in local authorities and in the health service for the last year
However, according to reports in this morning's newspapers, it will also recommend that some groups should get no increase at all and in some cases rises should be reduced significantly to take account of the value of public sector pensions.
Bertie Ahern earns €260,000 a year while ministers are paid just over €200,000.
WHAT KIND OF A F**KING JOKE OF A SYSTEM ARE WE LIVING IN!
WHAT ABOUT PAY INCREASES FOR HEALTH AND EDUCATION
NAY HARNEYS FAT ARSE AND BERTIES BANK ACCOUNTS ARE MORE PRESSING ISSUES AT THE MOMENT! C**NTS!
260 k Is that all he earns?... to run a whole country and look after that crowd of muppets in The Dail , Brutal if you ask me ... but then again who put him in there...