You have to wonder what these guys are smoking sometimes and what fools the electorate are for voting them back in. The facts: http://www.independent.ie/national-n... Dig out Bertie was lecturing union leaders & workers about the need for "wage restraint" at the same time as he gave himself a raise higher than the average industrial wage. I understand that he needs to insure against having to be dug out of future financial difficulties by builders & plasterers but does he really need to be higher paid that the president of the US? You wouldn't mind if he said it and led by example himself because we do actually need to cop ourselves on. It's only six months since the election and already we've got hairshirts popping out of 1980's vintage wardrobes with all the pre-election promises forgotten. The economy was going to be knackered whoever won the election but sending FF back into power for a third term for mediocre government is just pulling the piss. The electorate made it quite clear that they wanted the PD's banished to Outer Mongolia but we've got the ghoulish spectre of Mary Harney looking to finish off the job she started on privatising (gutting) our healthcare. We also have the "class act" Beverly Cooper-Flynn not only sitting on government benches but possibly in line for a ministry. This was after the Irish taxpayer got caught with half the bill for her failed bid to sue RTE who rightly reported that she aided tax evaders. Why on earth is this woman eligible to stand for election? For the guys who lost their seats in the election, help was at hand because Bertie appointed them to the senate instead. Ivor Callely of the free house painting scandal, we're looking at you. Bertie doesn't give a hoot as he won't have to face another election and based on past form, the electorate would still vote him in anyway. They only received the votes of 28% of the electorate and they get to sabotage the country & line their pockets for another 5 years. Is it that we are blind or is it because we don't care?

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ColinB, whilst I agree with you that the timing of the pay increases are a little stupid, I still, personally, would'nt do the job for €330,000 pa, there are easier ways of making Ã¢‚¬300k out there. Again you are right that the electorate did'nt out vote them last May but one has to recall the fecking other side of politics in Ireland were simply shite, and never gave us a credible alternative, they were to busy re-inventing themselves and making political love to each other without being seen. The problem as I see it is that we as a people have lost our way, we accept everything for what it is, our sense of outrage is gone, why because we are all richer,and we d'ont give a flying shite about anybody else except ourselves (Me,Me,Me,) and who made us all richer Bertie.

I drove from Dublin to Galway in May to vote Green look what happenened to my vote, morphed into a Fianna Fail vote, "c'est la vie,c'est la gare". The only way that we can change this collectively raise our voice and re-ignite our sense of outrage.